Emotional transitions in contemporary Afrodiasporic women's writing : defying the ontology of the stranger / Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suárez-Rodríguez, Ángela, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- Americanah.

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi.

Atta, Sefi. Bit of difference.

Atta, Sefi.

Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names.

Bulawayo, NoViolet.

Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the dreamers.

Mbue, Imbolo.

Strangers in literature.

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

Americanah (Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi).

Genre:

Literary criticism

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed's (2000) investigation of "stranger fetishism" and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of "stranger". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, "strange(r)ness" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women's Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rethinking the stranger from an emotional and literary perspective

Choicelessness and hopes in and beyond literary Africa

Becoming "Black": towards racial critical consciousness

Contemporary experiences of the return to Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Suárez-Rodríguez, Ángela. Emotional transitions in contemporary Afrodiasporic women's writing

ISBN:

9781032526690

1032526696

9781032526706

103252670X

OCLC:

1390554775