{"product_id":"transnational-africana-womens-fictions-9781032011325","title":"Transnational Africana Womens Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 multi-perspectivism leads to avenues of selective mutuality and influence to generate transformative creative work, scholarship, and practices. Writers included are Sylvia Wynter, Edwidge Danticat, Amanda Smith, Werewere Liking, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nnedi Okorafor, Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igiaba Scego, Léonara Miano, Gisèle Hountondji, Monique Ilboudo, and Maryse Condé, as well as filmmaker Kemi Adetiba. Over the course of the book, the contributors critically explore and update the canon on women in the African\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Transnational F(r)ictions: The Word, the Gaze, and the Narrative Cheryl Sterling \u003cstrong\u003ePart I -\u003ci\u003e Agents of Change and Producers of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Chapter 1,\"Beyond the Profession: Sylvia Wynter’s Decolonial University,\" Anthony Bayani Rodriguez Chapter 2, \"Mapping Diasporic and Transnational Subjectivities: Edwidge Danticat’s Politics of Exile and Home\/Comings,\" Simone A. James Alexander Chapter 3, \"Heavenly Homes and Transnational Travel: Amanda Smith’s Religious Cosmopolitan Vision,\" Amanda Lagji\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eChapter 4, \"Performing Africana Institutions: The \u003cem\u003eEnchevêtrement\u003c\/em\u003e of Futures and Faith in the Theater of Werewere Liking,\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eGuillaume Semon Yoboué \u003cstrong\u003ePart II - \u003ci\u003eTransLocations and the Futures of Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eChapter 5, \"Memory, Identity, and Change in Select Short Stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,\" Bernard Otonye Stephen Chapter 6, \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eEngaging the Diaspora in Contemporary Works by African Women Writers,\" Rose A. Sackeyfio Chapter 7, \"Transnational Agency, Nollywood Feminist Auteurs, and Patriarchy,\" Olusegun Soetan Chapter 8,\u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eSpeculation at the Limits? Articulating History, Genre, and the Diasporic Fantastic in Nnedi Okorafor’s Arro-yo Stories,\" Matthew Lecznar Chapter 9, \"Going through \u003ci\u003eSo Long a Letter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChanges\u003c\/i\u003e: African Women in the Process of Transformation,\" Cheryl Sterling \u003cstrong\u003ePart III - Diasporas of Difference \u003c\/strong\u003eChapter 10, \"Italy, Somalia, and the Black Mediterranean, or Reading Igiaba Scego’s \u003ci\u003eAdua \u003c\/i\u003ealongside Bâ, Mbembe, Waberi, and Somali Praise Poetry,\" Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Chapter 11, \"The Dismantling of Afropean Families in Léonora Miano’s\u003ci\u003e Afropean Soul\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003eJohanna Montlouis-Gabriel Chapter 12, \"Gendered Migrations: Transnationalisms and Intersectionalities in the Novels of Francophone African Women,\" Joyce Hope Scott Chapter 13, \"‘A part le bonheur, il n’y a rien d’essentiel:’ The Transnational Narrative Model in Maryse Condé’s \u003ci\u003eDesirada,\" \u003c\/i\u003eEliana Văgălău\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195246211415,"sku":"9781032011325","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032011325.jpg?v=1763646882","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transnational-africana-womens-fictions-9781032011325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}