African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367726133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 132 str.

Suzanne Scafe; Leith Dunn

Opis

This book focuses on issues of women’s agency and on the potential for transformation produced by the experience of migration and the networks and communities fashioned by African-Caribbean women in diasporic spaces.

Spis treści

1. African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora  2. I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora, local entanglements and entangled locals  3. Picturing theory: Nicole Awai’s black ooze as post-diaspora expression  4. Four women, for women: Caribbean diaspora artists reimag(in)ing the fine art canon  5. From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community: an autoethnographic account  6. Poem: Cinders, 1965  7. Poem: Heat  8. Poem: The harbour  9. Poem: Slaves without slavers (or "a fi wi faalt")  10. African-Caribbean women, (post)? Diaspora, and the meaning of home  11. ‘There is such a shelter in each other’: women looking for homes in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty and NW  12. Locating black feminist resistance through diaspora and post-diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short stories  13. ‘The interior of that relationship’: navigating the heterosexual relational space in Erna Brodber’s short fiction