1st Edition
West African Women in the Diaspora Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves
Introduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s Ghana Must Go Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta Conclusion
Biography
Rose A. Sackeyfio is Associate Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies and English at Winston-Salem State University, USA.
