Atlantic bound writing Afro-Atlantic diasporic consciousness in the works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome / Charlotte G. Mackay.
| Author/creator | Mackay, Charlotte G., 1990- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2025] |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Imagining Black Europe, 2633-108X ; volume no. 5 |
| Contents | Conceptualizing African and Afrodescendant identities in a transnational age: diasporic consciousness, the Black Atlantic and Afropeanism -- Ambivalent Afropea: navigating marginalization, binaries and hierarchies -- Historical consciousness: connecting the histories of slavery and (neo)colonization -- Counter modern consciousness: questioning modernity and its Eurocentric premises -- Feminine consciousness: reinstating African women in Black Atlantic dialogue. |
| Abstract | "This book is the first to investigate the literary portrayal of African and Afrodescendant identities in early fictional works by Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome. The study shows that the early fictions of these authors are characterized by changes in diasporic directionality and consciousness that increasingly engage with the Afro-Atlantic space. This space is positioned by both authors as the emancipatory site for a valorizing transglobal Africanity to which both continental and diasporic peoples can lay claim. Through close readings of two novels by each author, Miano and Diome's particular model of Afro-Atlantic diasporic consciousness is illuminated by theory drawn from decolonial, postcolonial, ecocritical, diaspora and feminist literary studies. This comparative reading ultimately suggests that the plight of African and Afrodescendant peoples remains very much present in the literary and affective sensibilities of Miano and Diome and positions them as engagé authors within the broader social context of international movements designed to end the discrimination that people of Sub-Saharan descent still experience globally"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024037607 |
| ISBN | 9781800797697 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |