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

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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-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
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni;Taiye Selasi;diaspora;Vice Versa;fiction;Fairy Tale;female characters;Claudio Monteverdi;role of women;Mother Daughter Relationship;globaization;Transnational Feminism;migration;Edwidge Danticat;immigration;Jean Michel Ganteau;borders;Diasporic Fiction;vulnerability;Wembley Exhibition;emowerment;Diasporic Women;transnational world;Buchi Emecheta;public spaces;Diasporic Subjects;private spaces;El Movimiento;contemporary literature;Young Men;contemporary fiction;Female Irish Migration;trauma studies;Zimbabwean Immigrants;female trauma;Feminist Chicana;violence;False Relations;abuse;Host Land;narrative;Natalie's Experience;female history;Yom Tov;memory;Contemporary Irish Novels;relationships;Perform Care Tasks;border crossing;multidirectionality;cross-culturalism;age of migration;gender studies;femninasation;identity;migrant women;second generation migrants;comparative literature;mexico;Julia Tofantsuk;Ceric Courtois;Merve Sarikaya-Sen;Beatriz Perez Zapata;Maria Rocio Cobo-Pinero;Corinne Bigot;Chiara Battisti;Sidia Fiorato;Maria Amor Barros-del Rio;Selen Aktari-Sevgi;Paul Ruesse;Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte Aranaga;Carolina Shez-Palencia