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This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left
their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.
In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction
by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of
the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood,
decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations
of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in
transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye
Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora
women’s fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity
and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa’s
borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora
is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with
paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite
portrait of African women’s experiences in the diasporic
landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of
migration and diaspora topics, and African, women’s and world
literature.
This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa
and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through
the literary works of key African women writers. Using a
postcolonial analytical framework, the book highlights the
commonalities of African women’s identities and experiences
across national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries in
Africa and in western settings. It collates the multi-regional
narratives of key African women writers who convey how women’s
lives are shaped by social, economic, and political factors at home
and abroad. It also illustrates the intersection of ethnicity,
class, and gender that flows through all the texts examined. Unlike
existing works that explore African women’s fiction, this book
uncovers the transformation from postcolonial themes of nationhood
to global modalities of post-independence writing through the lens
of gender. The book engages with feminist expression through broad
themes including religion, war and ethnic conflict, women’s
status in society, tradition and modernity and local and global
tensions. A unique approach to literary criticism of Anglophone
African women’s writing, this book will be of interest to
scholars and students in the field of African Literature, African
Studies, Women’s Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Cultural
and Ethnic Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies.
This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left
their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.
In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction
by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of
the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood,
decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations
of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in
transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye
Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora
women's fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and
marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa's borders.
Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an
uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical
realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of
African women's experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book
will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora
topics, and African, women's and world literature.
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.
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.
Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of
15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria's leading female writers.
The book includes a literary biography, professional profile, and
an interview with professor Adimora-Ezeigbo that offers valuable
insight into her life and works. Contributing scholars provide
critical and theoretical perspectives on Adimora-Ezeigbo's ouvre
that represents a postcolonial lens to interpret the African world.
Emerging Perspectives contextualizes Adimora-Ezeigbo's works of
fiction, poetry, and drama within African, Nigerian, and Women's
literary tradition. This collection builds upon critical and
theoretical scholarship on leading African writers whose works
comprise a dynamic and compelling genre of African writing that
spans the post-independence era into the 21st century. The essays
examine themes from Adimora-Ezeigbo's writing such as patriarchy,
feminism, war, cultural traditions, and contemporary issues in
Nigerian society such as trafficking, and many of the social,
economic, and political challenges to Nigeria's development as a
modern nation state.
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