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Author:   Silvia Pellicer-Ortín ,  Julia Kuznetski
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780367666033

ISBN 10:   0367666030
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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"

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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, Universite Toulouse-Jean Jaures, Toulouse, France.

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, Universite Toulouse-Jean Jaures, France. 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, Universite Toulouse-Jean Jaures, Toulouse, France.

Author Information

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.

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