Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Womens Writing - Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Rethinking the Stranger from an Emotional and Literary Perspective
2. Choicelessness and Hopes in and beyond Literary Africa
3. Becoming "Black": Towards Racial Critical Consciousness
4. Contemporary Experiences of the Return to Africa
Conclusions

About the author

Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is "Margarita Salas" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the postcolonial research centre CEREP based at the University of Liege. She is a member of the University of Oviedo's consolidated Research Group "Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories".

Product details

• Authors: Angela (University of Oviedo Suarez-Rodriguez, Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032526706
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252670-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature