Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic

(En)Gendering Literature and Performance
Herausgeber: Durán-Almarza, Emilia María; Álvarez López, Esther

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, thus exposing the manifold character of (black) diasporic interconnections within and beyond the Atlantic. Focusing on a wide array of contemporary literary and performance texts by women writers and performers from diverse locations including the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, the US, and the UK, chapters visit genres such as performance art, the novel, science fiction, short stories, and music. For these purposes, the volume is organized around two significant dimensions of diasporas: on the one hand, the material-corporeal and spatial-locations where those displacements associated with travel and exile occur, and, on the other, the fluid environments and networks that connect distant places, cultures, and times. This collection explores the ways in which women of African descent shape the cultures and histories in the modern, colonial, and postcolonial Atlantic worlds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415817431
• ISBN-10: 0415817439
• Artikelnr.: 36455815

Autorenporträt

Emilia María Durán-Almarza is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English Philology, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Esther Álvarez López is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English Philology, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: (En)Gendering the Black Atlantic Part I. Diasporic
Materialities A. Body Politics 1. Seeing Black and the Color of
Representation Fo Wilson 2. 'i think i might be broken'. The Reconstitution
of Black Atlantic Bodies and Memories in Sharon Bridgforth's Delta Dandi
Ana-Maurine Lara 3. Black British Women's Literature and the Politics of
Hair Tracey L Walters B. Reconfiguring Space 4. Lyrical Cartographies:
Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the Black Atlantic in Dionne Brand's A Map to
the Door of No Return and At the Full and Change of the Moon Mathilde
Mergeai 5. Diasporic Caribbean Women Transcending Dystopian Spaces and
Reconnecting Fragmented Identities in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the
Ring and Midnight Robber Myriam Moïse 6. The Black Atlantic and Home: Women
and Migrations in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die and Yvonne Vera's
The Stone Virgins Carolyn Hart 7. Roots and Rootedness: Unearthing
(En)gendered Identities in Donna Weir-Soley's First Rain Claudia May Part
II. Diasporic Journeys A. Re-Routing The Black Atlantic 8. The Dancing
Couple in Black Atlantic Space Ananya Kabir 9. Mapping Transatlantic
Feminist Cartographies through Black Atlantic Cinema Emilia María Durán
Almarza 10. Negotiating Belonging: Yvonne Vera's Politics of Location
Anna-Leena Toivanen B. M/Othering The Black Atlantic 11. M/Othering Black
Female Subjectivity across the Black Atlantic in the Novels of Maryse
Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez Ana María Fraile-Marcos 12.
The Sea-People of Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms: Reconceptualizing
Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic through Considerations of Myth and
Motherhood Giselle Liza Anatol