Difficult diasporas [electronic resource] : the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic / Samantha Pinto.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780814789360
- 0814759483
- 305.42096 23
- HQ1787 .P56 2013
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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