Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women's Writing

Making Love, Making Worlds
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-67756-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leetsch, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Be/longing.- 2 Routes of Desire: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.- 3 London Lovers: Zadie Smith.- 4 Longing Elsewhere: Helen Oyeyemi.- 5 Opening Wor(l)ds: Warsan Shire and Shailja Patel.- 6 Coda: “Dreaming of a yet unwritten future”.

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Leetsch is a Lecturer in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her research focuses on affect, gender and the black diaspora, and she has previously published on desire and intimacy in African diasporic novels, the African European spatial imagination, refugee geocorpographies and diasporic digital media.