1st Edition
Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger
By Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez
Copyright 2024
202 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah , Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference , NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers . Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of... Read more
Introduction
1. Rethinking the Stranger from an Emotional and Literary Perspective
2. Choicelessness and Hopes in and beyond Literary Africa
3. Becoming “Black”: Towards Racial Critical Consciousness
4. Contemporary Experiences of the Return to Africa
Conclusions
Biography
Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is "Margarita Salas" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the postcolonial research centre CEREP based at the University of Liege. She is a member of the University of Oviedo’s consolidated Research Group "Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories".
