1st Edition
African Women Narrating Identity Local and Global Journeys of the Self
Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent
Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women’s Lives
1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile
2: Caste, Class, and Women’s Identity in Bessie Head’s Maru
3: Sisters of the Soil: Women’s Resistance in Muthoni Likimani’s Passbook Number F. 47927
4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women’s Fiction
5: Unveiling Women’s Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela’s Translator and Minaret
6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego’s Adua
8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Conclusion: Narrating African Women’s Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
Biography
Rose A. Sackeyfio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Winston-Salem State University, USA. She is also the author of West African Women in the Diaspora (Routledge 2021), and editor of African Women Writing Diaspora, (Lexington 2021) and Co-Editor of Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo (Lexington 2017).
