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Informationen zum Autor Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor of English in the Department of Liberal Studies at Winston-Salem State University. Klappentext African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa's borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Rose A. Sackeyfio Chapter 1: Memory, Identity, and Return in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing Rose A. Sackeyfio Chapter 2: Malian Immigration in France: Perspectives from African Women Writers of French Expression Cheryl Toman Chapter 3: Waithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names Amanda Lagji Chapter 4: Sexuality, Self-Actualization, and Mobility in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street Tomi Adeaga Chapter 5: Transnational African Women as Voices of Conscience: Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Adichie's Americanah and Atta's A Bit of Difference Nancy Henaku Chapter 6: Local and Global Perspectives on Nigerian Women's Activism in News from Home by Sefi Atta Rose A. Sackeyfio Chapter 7: Breaking Mythical Barriers through a Feminist Engagement with Magical Realism Olusegun Adeoluwa Conclusion: Shifting the Boundaries of African Women's Writing Rose A. Sackeyfio ...
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Rose A. Sackeyfio is associate professor of English in the Department of Liberal Studies at Winston-Salem State University.
