Research Catalog

Title

West African women in the diaspora : narratives of other spaces, other selves / Rose A. Sackeyfio.

Author

Sackeyfio, Rose A.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

viii, 135 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

African diaspora literary and cultural studies

Subject

• West African fiction (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
• African diaspora in literature
• Women, Black, in literature
• Transnationalism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Unbelonging, race, and journeys of the self in the diaspora fiction of Buchi Emecheta -- Self and other(s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo -- Violated bodies and displaced identities in Chika Unigwe's on Black Sister's Street -- Negotiating identity and Pan-African aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Reimagining home(land) and mirrors of the past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo -- Unbecoming dreams, splintered identities, and routes of return in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go -- Transnational gaze(ing) and shifting identities in the short fiction of Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- There's no place like home: memory and identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta.

ISBN

• 9781032113067
• 1032113065
• 9781032113098
• 103211309X

LCCN

2021023858

OCLC

1252412430

Author

Sackeyfio, Rose A., author.

Title

West African women in the diaspora : narratives of other spaces, other selves / Rose A. Sackeyfio.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African diaspora literary and cultural studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.