{"product_id":"women-writers-of-the-new-african-diaspora-transnational-negotiations-and-female-agency-paperback","title":"Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePauline Ada Uwakweh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book inspires critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePauline Ada Uwakweh is Associate Professor of Literature and teaches postcolonial African, African-American and World literatures in the English Department at North Carolina A \u0026amp; T State University, USA. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Temple University, Philadelphia; her M.A. degree from the University of Calabar; and her B.A. degree from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and co-editor of the book, \u003ci\u003eEngaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). She has published several articles, book reviews, and book chapters on women in professional journals, such as \u003ci\u003eResearch in African Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJournal of African Literature Association\u003c\/i\u003e. Some of her works have been published in critical books on African literature, including \u003ci\u003eEmerging African Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNwanyibu: Womanbeing in African Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora Program (CADFP).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47477808922802,"sku":"9781032420011","price":89.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/09383293df3788b4773088c578dcffd0.webp?v=1779208620","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/women-writers-of-the-new-african-diaspora-transnational-negotiations-and-female-agency-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}