Difficult Diasporas
Subtitle: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780814770092
Subjects: Feminism; African diaspora; African american women
Description: In this comparative study of contemporary black atlantic women writers, the author demonstrates the role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, this publication brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures.