Women on the Move [electronic resource] : Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing.

Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia.
Call Number
809.933552
Author
Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia.
Title
Women on the Move Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing.
Publication
Milton : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (287 p.)
Series
Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
12 Short Stories on the Move: Remapping the Diasporic Jewish and Female Self in Michelene Wandor's False Relations (2004a)Index
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: Disturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of Migration; Introduction: The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women; 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)
2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New NamesSECTION 2 Globality, Locality and Cosmopolitanism; 3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith's Swing Time; 4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora; 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; 6 In the Kitchen with Monica Ali: Flavouring Gender and Diaspora
SECTION 4 Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality7 Recalling Female Migration in contemporary irish Novels: An Intersectional Approach; 8 Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright's The Green Road; 9 Movement, Places and Knotted History in Charlotte Mendelson's Almost English; SECTION 5 Crossing Borders: Female Bodies and Identities in Transit; 10 Travelling the US-Mexican Border, challenging chicanidad; 11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004)
Summary
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. the authors have brought together a collection of essays from scholars indiaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization bycoveringtopics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.
Added Author
Tofantshuk, Julia.
Subject
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women.
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Summary
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. the authors have brought together a collection of essays from scholars indiaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization bycoveringtopics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
12 Short Stories on the Move: Remapping the Diasporic Jewish and Female Self in Michelene Wandor's False Relations (2004a)Index
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: Disturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of Migration; Introduction: The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women; 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)
2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New NamesSECTION 2 Globality, Locality and Cosmopolitanism; 3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith's Swing Time; 4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora; 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; 6 In the Kitchen with Monica Ali: Flavouring Gender and Diaspora
SECTION 4 Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality7 Recalling Female Migration in contemporary irish Novels: An Intersectional Approach; 8 Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright's The Green Road; 9 Movement, Places and Knotted History in Charlotte Mendelson's Almost English; SECTION 5 Crossing Borders: Female Bodies and Identities in Transit; 10 Travelling the US-Mexican Border, challenging chicanidad; 11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004)
Subject
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women.
Multimedia