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1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies ; 7 |
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Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 7.
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| Contents |
Cover; Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: (En)Gendering the Black Atlantic; Part I Diasporic Materialities; I.1 Body Politics; 1 Seeing Black and the Color of Representation; 2 "i think i might be broken": The Reconstitution of Black Atlantic Bodies and Memories in Sharon Bridgforth's Delta Dandi; 3 Black British Women's Literature and the Politics of Hair; I.2 Reconfiguring Space |
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4 Lyrical Cartographies: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Black Atlantic in Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return and At the Full and Change of the Moon5 Diasporic Caribbean Women Transcending Dystopian Spaces and Reconnecting Fragmented Identities in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber; 6 The Black Atlantic and Home: Women and Migrations in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die and Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; 7 Roots and Rootedness: Unearthing (En)Gendered Identities in Donna Weir-Soley's First Rain; Part II Diasporic Journeys |
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II. 1 Rerouting the Black Atlantic8 The Dancing Couple in Black Atlantic Space; 9 Mapping Transatlantic Feminist Cartographies through Black Atlantic Cinema; 10 Negotiating Belonging: Yvonne Vera's Politics of Location; II. 2 M/Othering the Black Atlantic; 11 M/Othering Black Female Subjectivity across the Black Atlantic in the Novels of Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez; 12 The Sea-People of Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms: Reconceptualizing Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic through Considerations of Myth and Motherhood; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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African diaspora in literature.
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Women, Black, in literature.
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African diaspora in literature
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Literature -- Black authors
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Literature -- Women authors
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Women, Black, in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Durán-Almarza, Emilia María, editor
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Alvarez López, Esther, editor
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| ISBN |
9781136656989 |
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1136656987 |
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