Difficult diasporas : the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / Samantha Pinto.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinto, Samantha
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Feminism > Africa.
African diaspora.
African American women authors.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Physical Description:x, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The world and the "jar"? : Jackie Kay and the feminist locations of the African diaspora
  • It's lonely at the bottom : Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the cosmopolitan poetics of the Black body
  • The drama of dislocation : staging diaspora history in the work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the gendered fictions of Black modernity
  • Intimate migrations : narrating "third world women" in the short fiction of Bessie Head, Zo Wicomb, and Pauline Melville
  • Impossible objects : M. Nourbese Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the diaspora feminist aesthetics of accumulation.