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

Author/creator Pinto, Samantha
Format Book
PublicationNew York : New York University Press, [2013]
Descriptionx, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Feminism--Africa.
African diaspora.
African American women authors.
African American women--Intellectual life.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013005250
ISBN9780814759486 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0814759483 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814770092 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0814770096 (pb : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1787 .P56 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold