Dialogues across diasporas : women writers, scholars, and activists of Africana and Latina descent in conversation /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2013. |
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| Description: | xvii, 284 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Africana studies : African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies Critical Africana studies. African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8964467 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Dialogues Across Diasporas: Africana? Chicana? Latina? No, Afro-Latina!
- 1. Diasporic Debates: Exploring the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Migration
- 1. "Harvesting" Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Zora Neale Hurston's Literary (Dis)Articulation of Being
- 2. Not in Our Mother's Image: Ekphrasis and Challenges to Recovering Afro-Mestizaje in Contemporary Latina/Chicana Historical Fiction
- 3. Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender, and Home in Calixthe Beyala's Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Maman a un Amant
- 4. Embodied Translation: Dominant Discourse and Communication with Migrant Bodies-as-Text
- 2. Diasporic Dances: Performing Language, History, and Community
- 5. In Tongues-The Trouble Inside Language: Imag[e]ining Presence
- 6. A Freedom Stolen
- 7. Reading Yvette Christiansë: Reflections from a Border Scholar-Activist
- 8. Pin-Stripe Alley
- 9. A Box of Chocolates
- 10. The Sun Once Again Sings to the People
- 11. "Talking Tagalog" and "The Eyes Open to a Cry"
- 3. Diasporic Doings: Celebrating Community Activism in the Americas and Beyond
- 12. An Afro-Mestizo Tamal: Remembering a Sensory and Sacred Encounter
- 13. Recovering Afro-Mestiza Identities: A Borderlands Classroom
- 14. Discourses of Deference: Women and Submission in the Nigerian Diaspora
- 15. Catherine Mary Ajizinga Chipembere of Malawi: Living an Extraordinary Life
- 16. Luchando, Rimando, Sacando, Pintando: Young Female Artist Collectives in Ciudad Juárez
- 17. Constrained Activism: National Agendas versus Local Activities in Non-governmental Organizations Serving Diasporic Women
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
