West African women in the diaspora : narratives of other spaces, other selves /: narratives of other spaces, other selves. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rose A. Sackeyfio.
• Authors: Sackeyfio, Rose A
• Contents: Introduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s Ghana Must Go Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.0099287089966; African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; African diaspora in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000474480; 9781000474404; 9781003219323
• Related ISBNs: 9781032113067
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