1st Edition

Women on the Move Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing

Edited By Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Julia Kuznetski Copyright 2019
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski have brought  together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.



    Acknowledgments



    Notes on Contributors



    Foreword



    Disturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of Migration



    Jill Lewis



    Introduction



    The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women



    Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski



    SECTION 1



    Unbelonginess and Displacement in the Diaspora: Finding a Voice Through Narrative



    1 The Travelling Bodies of African Prostitutes in the Transnational Space in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail (2006) and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009)



    Ceìdric Courtois



    2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names



    Merve Sarikaya-Şen





    SECTION 2



    Globality, Locality and Cosmpolitanism



    3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time



    Beatriz Pérez Zapata



    4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora



    María Rocío Cobo-Piñero





    SECTION 3



    Defining Feminine Spaces: Home, Self, Identity and Food



    5 "By Way of Their Fingers": Making Sense of Self and Home in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



    Corinne Bigot



    6 In the Kitchen with Monica Ali: Flavouring Gender and Diaspora



    Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato





    SECTION 4



    Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality



    7 Recalling Female Migration in Contemporary Irish Novels: An Intersectional Approach



    Maria Amor Barros-del Río



    8 Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright’s The Green Road



    Selen Aktari-Sevgi



    9 Movement, Places and Knotted History in Charlotte Mendelson’s Almost English



    Julia Kuznetski



    SECTION 5



    Crossing Borders: Female Bodies and Identities in Transit



    10 Travelling the US-Mexican Border, Challenging Chicanidad



    Paul Rüsse and Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte



    11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy’s Small Island



    Carolina Sánchez-Palencia



    12 Short Stories on the Move: Mapping Memory and Constructing the (Jewish) Diasporic Female Self in Michelene Wandor’s False Relations



    Silvia Pellicer-Ortín





    Index

    Biography

    Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.



    Julia Kuznetski is Associate Professor of British Literature and curator of Liberal Arts in Humanities programme at Tallinn University, Estonia.

    "A most timely, informative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study on literature’s potential to explore the representation of femininity in contemporary diasporic narratives in English." -- Dolores Herrero, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

    "A must-read in Humanities to understand what story-telling may be about in a world of changes, crises and (self-)reconstruction." -- Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud, Professor of English, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.