Women on the Move
Women on the Move
Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing
Pellicer-Ortin, Silvia; Tofantshuk, Julia
Taylor & Francis Ltd
07/2018
266
Dura
Inglês
9781138321991
15 a 20 dias
453
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-Ortin 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)
Ceidric Courtois
2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
Merve Sarikaya-Sen
SECTION 2
Globality, Locality and Cosmpolitanism
3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith's Swing Time
Beatriz Perez Zapata
4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora
Maria Rocio Cobo-Pinero
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 Rio
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 Ruesse and Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte
11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy's Small Island
Carolina Sanchez-Palencia
12 Short Stories on the Move: Mapping Memory and Constructing the (Jewish) Diasporic Female Self in Michelene Wandor's False Relations
Silvia Pellicer-Ortin
Index
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-Ortin 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)
Ceidric Courtois
2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
Merve Sarikaya-Sen
SECTION 2
Globality, Locality and Cosmpolitanism
3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith's Swing Time
Beatriz Perez Zapata
4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora
Maria Rocio Cobo-Pinero
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 Rio
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 Ruesse and Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte
11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy's Small Island
Carolina Sanchez-Palencia
12 Short Stories on the Move: Mapping Memory and Constructing the (Jewish) Diasporic Female Self in Michelene Wandor's False Relations
Silvia Pellicer-Ortin
Index