Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers emanating from Cameroon (Nicole Werewere Liking), Britain (Winsome Pinnock), Guadeloupe (Maryse Conde and Simone Schwartz-Bart), Nigeria (Tess Onwueme), and the United States (Ntozake Shange) move beyond static, conventional notions regarding blackness and being female and reconfigure newer identities and spaces to thrive....
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by...
