Difficult diasporas
Pinto, Samantha.
Difficult diasporas the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / [electronic resource] : Samantha Pinto. - New York : New York University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814789360 0814759483
African American women--Intellectual life.
African American women authors.
African diaspora.
Feminism--Africa.
Electronic books.
HQ1787 / .P56 2013
305.42096
Difficult diasporas the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / [electronic resource] : Samantha Pinto. - New York : New York University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814789360 0814759483
African American women--Intellectual life.
African American women authors.
African diaspora.
Feminism--Africa.
Electronic books.
HQ1787 / .P56 2013
305.42096