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Author:   Aretha Phiri
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032752457

ISBN 10:   1032752459
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction: Reframing the Black Atlantic Aretha Phiri 1. The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and the politics of hybridity Marzia Milazzo 2. ‘It was a departure of sorts’: Glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka ArimahCopperbelt Jennifer Terry 3. Feeling against the plot: An African diaspora feminist politics of happiness Samantha Pinto 4. How black is African Noir?: Defining blackness through crime fiction Sam Naidu 5. Queering the black Atlantic: Transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art Rocío Cobo-Piñero 6. Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique Polo B. Moji 7. Migrating narratives: Re-inscribing black diaspora cultures Aretha Phiri 8. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: Talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright Aretha Phiri & Michelle M. Wright Afterword: Engendering new century black transnationalisms Laura Chrisman

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Aretha Phiri researches the intersectional interactions of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and sexualities in comparative, transnational and transatlantic considerations of identity and subjectivity, with a focus on African American, American and contemporary diasporic African literature. Currently on the editorial boards of Safundi and English in Africa, she has been a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS), the National Humanities Center (NHC) and the Library of Congress (LoC).

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