Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

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 in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large. 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 Names SECTION 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 Liminality 7 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) 12 Short Stories on the Move: Remapping the Diasporic Jewish and Female Self in Michelene Wandor’s False Relations (2004a) Index 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. Silvia Pellicer-ortin And Julia Tofantshuk Have Brought Together A Collection Of Essays From Scholars In Diaspora, Migration And Gender Studies To Take A Look At The Female Experince Of Migration And Globalization By Covering Topics Such As Vulnerability, Empowerment, Trauma, Identity, Memory, Violence And Gender Contruction, Which Will Continue To Shape Contemporary Literature And The Culture At Large. 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 in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender construction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large Women on the Move explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortin and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization.