Transnational Africana women's fictions / edited by Cheryl Sterling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sterling, Cheryl, 1964- editor.

Series:

African diaspora literary and cultural studies.

African diaspora literary and cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

African literature.

European literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

European literature.

African diaspora in literature.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Africa.

Motion pictures.

European literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies. The book demonstrates how in discourse and theory Africana women are the centers of their own knowledge production and agency, as the artists and their characters point the way forward. Their multiperspectivism leads to avenues of selective mutuality and influence, to generate transformative creative work, scholarship, and practices. Writers included are Sylvia Wynter, Edwidge Danticat, Werewere Liking, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nnedi Okorafor, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igiaba Scego, Leonara Miano, Gisèle Hountondji, Monique Ilboudo, and Maryse Condé, as well as the filmmaker, Kemi Adetiba.Over the course of the book, the contributors critically explore and update the canon on women in the African and African Diaspora Literary sphere, highlighting their contributions to theoretical debates, and providing substantive nuance to diasporic subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of African and Africana Studies, comparative literature and women and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: transnational F(r)ictions: the Word, the Gaze, and the Narrative

Part I Agents of change and producers of knowledge

1 Beyond the profession: Sylvia Wynter's Decolonial University

2 Mapping diasporic and transnational subjectivities: Edwidge Danticat's politics of exile and home/comings

3 Heavenly homes and transnational travel: Amanda Smith's religious cosmopolitan vision

4 Performing Africana institutions: the enchevêtrement of futures and faith in the theater of Werewere Liking

Part II TransLocations and the futures of fiction

5 Memory, identity, and change in select short stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6 Engaging the diaspora in contemporary works by African women writers

7 Transnational agency, Nollywood feminist auteurs, and patriarchy

8 Speculation at the limits? Articulating history, genre, and the diasporic fantastic in Nnedi Okorafor's Arro-yo stories

9 Going through So Long a Letter and Changes: African women in the process of transformation

Part III Diasporas of difference

10 Italy, Somalia, and the Black Mediterranean, or reading Igiaba Scego's Adua alongside Bâ, Mbembe, Waberi, and Somali praise poetry

11 The dismantling of Afropean families in Léonora Miano's Afropean Soul

12 Gendered migrations: transnationalisms and intersectionalities in the novels of Francophone African women

13 "A part le bonheur, il n'y a rien d'essentiel": the transnational narrative model in Maryse Condé's Desirada

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-317727-1

1-003-17727-1

1-000-46103-3

9781003177272

OCLC:

1263874240