West African Women in the Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781032113098 / Miękka / 2023 / 136 str.

Rose A. Sackeyfio

Opis

Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora women’s fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa’s borders.

Spis treści

Introduction  Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta  Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo  Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street  Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo  Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s Ghana Must Go  Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta  Conclusion

O autorze

Rose A. Sackeyfio is Associate Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies and English at Winston-Salem State University, USA.