West African Women in the Diaspora

West African Women in the Diaspora

Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves

Sackeyfio, Rose A.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2021

136

Dura

Inglês

9781032113067

15 a 20 dias

290

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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
Taiye Selasi;West Africa;Sister Killjoy;West African diaspora;Chika Unigwe;African novel;African Diaspora;decolonization;Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;nationhood;Bye Bye Babar;transnational spaces;Ama Ata Aidoo;women's fiction;African Women;Nigerian Woman;West African Women;African Women's Writing;Buchi Emecheta;Tanure Ojaide;Adichie's Americanah;African Literary History;Sex Trafficking;Short Story Genre;African Immigrant Women;African Immigrants;Atlantic Slave Trade;Violated;African Literary;Ghanaian Immigrants;Black Sisters;Literary Pan-Africanism