Difficult Diasporas : : The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / / Samantha Pinto.
Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American LiteratureIn this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Feminist Disorder of Diaspora
- 1 / The World and the “Jar”: Jackie Kay and the Feminist Locations of the African Diaspora
- 2 / It’s Lonely at the Bottom: Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the Cosmopolitan Poetics of the Black Body
- 3 / The Drama of Dislocation: Staging Diaspora History in the Work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo
- 4 / Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity
- 5 / Intimate Migrations: Narrating “Third World Women” in the Short Fiction of Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, and Pauline Melville
- 6 / Impossible Objects: M. NourbeSe Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the Diaspora Feminist Aesthetics of Accumulation
- Coda: The Risks of Reading
- Notes
- References
- Index