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Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women's Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women's Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds

Leetsch, Jennifer

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 3030677532
ISBN13: 9783030677534
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 17 2021
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.

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