Difficult diasporas [electronic resource] : the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / Samantha Pinto.

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.

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