Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female

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This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. It brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences.

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This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear.

Author Biography

Pauline Ada Uwakweh is Associate Professor of Literature and teaches postcolonial African, African-American and World literatures in the English Department at North Carolina A & T State University, USA. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Temple University, Philadelphia; her M.A. degree from the University of Calabar; and her B.A. degree from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is the editor of African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict (2017) and co-editor of the book, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (2014). She has published several articles, book reviews, and book chapters on women in professional journals, such as Research in African Literatures, African Literature Today, and Journal of African Literature Association. Some of her works have been published in critical books on African literature, including Emerging African Voices, Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta, Nwanyibu: Womanbeing in African Literature, and Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. She is a Fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora Program (CADFP).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Transnationalism and New African Diaspora Women Writers: An Overview PART I: EMIGRATION: (En)gendering Transnationalism, Mobilities, and Politics of Representation 1. Power of the Story: Mediating Africa's Diasporic Ruptures in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing 2. Specters of Slavery, Sites of Violence: Reading Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street as a Neo-Slave Narrative 3. Mobilities as Transnational Literary Aesthetics in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah PART II: NEGOTIATION: Transnational Identities, Home, and Intersectional Contexts 4. Navigating the American Dream: Diaspora Families and Transnational Dilemmas in Mbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers 5. 'The Home of Things Falling Apart': Narrating and Performing Home(land) in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names 6. Enter the Afropolitan: Taiye Selasi's Cultural Significations in Ghana Must Go 7. Narrative Identity in Ancestor Stones: Aminatta Forna's Postcolonial and Revisionist Discourse 8. Gendered Journeys and Self-Discovery: The Transnational Context in Leila Aboulela's Bird Summons PART III: RETURNS: Reverse Migration, Ambivalent Returns, and Making Sense of Homeland 9. Theorizing Homeland Returns in Transnational Women's Narratives 10: Conclusion: Telescoping the Future of New African Diaspora Women's Literature

Review

"Uwakweh's lucid, highly relevant book compellingly explores the meanings of gendered African migratory experiences from emigration and transnationalism to reverse migration. In this valuable account of contemporary Afrodiasporic women's writing, the discussion of the aesthetics of mobile technologies and the conceptualization of diasporic returns provide particularly refreshing insights into migration mobilities in fiction."Anna-Leena Toivanen, Academy Research Fellow, University of Eastern Finland, Finland"Uwakweh takes us beyond the now familiar concept of the Afropolitan to consider other matters of interest to female writers of the new African diaspora, including perceptions of history, generational differences, and professional development among others. In so doing, she opens up new vistas for critical engagement with these writers." Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis, USA"Women Writers of the New African Diaspora provides a timely addition to dialogs about African women writers' explorations of the combined impact of mobility, transnationalism, religion and Afropolitan identities on gender and immigration. A compelling examination of the roots-and-routes of Black identity in contemporary Africa's ongoing transnational literary project." Anthonia C. Kalu, University of California-Riverside, USA"With eight outstanding works of fiction as a lens, Uwakweh illuminates foundations and feeders of female Diasporan transformations, agency and empowerment. This is a groundbreaking work that offers historic and current perspectives in contextualizing the modern African woman in a manner that is at once thoroughgoing, erudite, insightful and accessible." Benjamin Kwakye novelist and poet, winner of the 1999 and 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prizes (Africa Region) "Uwakweh's comprehensive study of eight, transnational African women writers exploring the different intersectionalities specific to women migrants significantly adds to the growing scholarship of Afrodiasporic literature. Her insightful analysis of the characters' complex relationships between their host and home countries underscores the need for new paradigms for theorizing African literature." Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Professor Emerita, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Details ISBN1032420014 Author Pauline Ada Uwakweh Short Title Women Writers of the New African Diaspora Language English ISBN-10 1032420014 ISBN-13 9781032420011 Subtitle Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency DEWEY 809.88960082 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Contemporary Africa Year 2022 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-12-30 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-12-30 NZ Release Date 2022-12-30 UK Release Date 2022-12-30 Pages 242 Alternative 9780367263683 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Routledge We've got this

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