Difficult diasporas the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
Record details
- ISBN: 9780814789360 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0814789366 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780814759486
- ISBN: 0814759483
- ISBN: 9780814770092
- ISBN: 0814770096
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (pages cm.) - Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory Feminism -- Africa African diaspora African American women authors African American women -- Intellectual life |
Genre: | Electronic books. |