{"product_id":"west-african-women-in-the-diaspora-9781032113098","title":"West African Women in the Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora womenâs fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africaâs borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a vivid and composite portrait of African womenâs experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, womenâs and world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in \u003ci\u003eOur Sister Killjoy\u003c\/i\u003e by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s \u003ci\u003eOn Black Sisters’ Street \u003c\/i\u003eCh. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in\u003ci\u003e Americanah \u003c\/i\u003eby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic Pounds\u003c\/i\u003e by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s \u003ci\u003eGhana Must Go \u003c\/i\u003eCh. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in \u003ci\u003eA Bit of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e by Sefi Atta Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018843914583,"sku":"9781032113098","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032113098.jpg?v=1750778363","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/west-african-women-in-the-diaspora-9781032113098","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}