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03870aam a2200457 i 4500 001 F164E7D21DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 210708t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021023858 020 $a 103211309X 020 $a 9781032113098 020 $a 1032113065 020 $a 9781032113067 035 $a (OCoLC)1252412430 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d PAU $d OCLCO $d MUU $d CNKUC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 4 $a PR9344 $b .S23 2022 082 00 $a 820.9/92870966 $2 23 100 1 $a Sackeyfio, Rose A., $e author. 245 10 $a West African women in the diaspora : $b narratives of other spaces, other selves / $c Rose A. Sackeyfio. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2022. 300 $a viii, 135 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a African diaspora literary and cultural studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora. In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora women's fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa's borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of African women's experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, women's and world literature"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Unbelonging, race, and journeys of the self in the diaspora fiction of Buchi Emecheta -- Self and other(s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo -- Violated bodies and displaced identities in Chika Unigwe's on Black Sister's Street -- Negotiating identity and Pan-African aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Reimagining home(land) and mirrors of the past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo -- Unbecoming dreams, splintered identities, and routes of return in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go -- Transnational gaze(ing) and shifting identities in the short fiction of Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- There's no place like home: memory and identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta. 650 0 $a West African fiction (English) $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African diaspora in literature. 650 0 $a Women, Black, in literature. 650 0 $a Transnationalism in literature. 650 7 $a African diaspora in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902319 650 7 $a Transnationalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904970 650 7 $a Women, Black, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178939 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sackeyfio, Rose A. $t West African women in the diaspora. $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2022] $z 9781003219323 $w (DLC) 2021023859 830 0 $a African diaspora literary and cultural studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024931.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F164E7D21DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search