Difficult diasporas : the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic /
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| Author / Creator: | Pinto, Samantha. |
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, [2013] |
| Description: | x, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9341330 |
Table of Contents:
- The world and the "jar"? : Jackie Kay and the feminist locations of the African diaspora
- It's lonely at the bottom : Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the cosmopolitan poetics of the Black body
- The drama of dislocation : staging diaspora history in the work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo
- Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the gendered fictions of Black modernity
- Intimate migrations : narrating "third world women" in the short fiction of Bessie Head, Zo Wicomb, and Pauline Melville
- Impossible objects : M. Nourbese Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the diaspora feminist aesthetics of accumulation.
