Writings On Black Women Of The Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Download Writings On Black Women Of The Diaspora PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Writings On Black Women Of The Diaspora book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Writings On Black Women Of The Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Lean'tin Bracks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-23
Writings On Black Women Of The Diaspora written by Lean'tin Bracks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-23 with History categories.
Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Mary Prince represent the best of African American women writers who draw on the tortuous legacy of their people as a source for their art, revealing and defining themselves as they create compelling narratives that illuminate their roots, their heritage, and their unique culture. The themes that suffuse their writing are family, community, strong women, cultural memory, oral history, and slavery. By analyzing the works of these four remarkable writers, the study shows how today's black woman can take control of her destiny by coming to grips with an obscured and distorted past. These original essays articulate the way in which historical awareness, sensitivity to language, and an understanding of stereotypes can empower enduring artistic visions in a world that is largely indifferent to marginal voices.
Binding Cultures
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Gay Wilentz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-05-22
Binding Cultures written by Gay Wilentz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-22 with History categories.
"Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." —Nellie McKay "Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field." —Choice "Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding—and embracing—the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization." —Belles Lettres Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community.
Diasporic Women S Writing Of The Black Atlantic
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Emilia María Durán-Almarza
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Diasporic Women S Writing Of The Black Atlantic written by Emilia María Durán-Almarza and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, thus exposing the manifold character of (black) diasporic interconnections within and beyond the Atlantic. Focusing on a wide array of contemporary literary and performance texts by women writers and performers from diverse locations including the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, the US, and the UK, chapters visit genres such as performance art, the novel, science fiction, short stories, and music. For these purposes, the volume is organized around two significant dimensions of diasporas: on the one hand, the material—corporeal and spatial—locations where those displacements associated with travel and exile occur, and, on the other, the fluid environments and networks that connect distant places, cultures, and times. This collection explores the ways in which women of African descent shape the cultures and histories in the modern, colonial, and postcolonial Atlantic worlds.
African Women Writing Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Rose A. Sackeyfio
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-26
African Women Writing Diaspora written by Rose A. Sackeyfio and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa’s borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west.
Changing The Subject
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Merinda Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Changing The Subject written by Merinda Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons argues that, in first-person narratives about women of color, contexts of migration illuminate constructions of gender and labor. These constructions and migrations suggest that the oft-employed notion of "authenticity" is not as useful a classification as many feminist and postcolonial scholars have assumed. Instead of relying on so-called authentic feminist journeys and heroines for her analysis, Simmons calls for a self-reflexive scholarship that takes seriously the scholar's own role in constructing the subject. The starting point for this study is the nineteenth-century Caribbean narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831). Simmons puts Prince's narrative in conversation with three twentieth-century novels: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, and Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She incorporates autobiography theory to shift the critical focus from the object of study--slave histories--to the ways people talk about those histories and to the guiding interests of such discourses. In its reframing of women's migration narratives, Simmons's study unsettles theoretical certainties and disturbs the very notion of a cohesive diaspora.
Women In Africa And The African Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Women In Africa And The African Diaspora written by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
Women in Africa and the African Diaspora examines the role and place of women of the African diaspora. Contributors clarify the concept, methodology, and projected guidelines for studies of women throughout the African diaspora.
Changing The Subject
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Merinda Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Changing The Subject written by Merinda Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with African American women in literature categories.
The Pursuit Of Happiness
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Bianca C. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-08
The Pursuit Of Happiness written by Bianca C. Williams and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Social Science categories.
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.
Speaking In Tongues And Dancing Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Mae Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Race and American Culture
Release Date : 2014
Speaking In Tongues And Dancing Diaspora written by Mae Henderson and has been published by Race and American Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line" all affirm the power of sonance and sound in the African American literary tradition. The collection of essays in Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora contributes to this tradition by theorizing the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Looking to work by such prominent black female authors as Alice Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, among many others, Mae G. Henderson provides a deeply felt reflection on race and gender and their effects within the discourse of speaker and listener.
Love And Space In Contemporary African Diasporic Women S Writing
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Jennifer Leetsch
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-16
Love And Space In Contemporary African Diasporic Women S Writing written by Jennifer Leetsch and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.