@article{1438283,
      recid = {1438283},
      author = {Leetsch, Jennifer,},
      title = {Love and space in contemporary African diasporic women's  writing : making love, making worlds /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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. Jennifer Leetsch is Lecturer in English  Literature at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. Her  research focuses on affect, gender and the black diaspora,  and she has previously published on desire in African  diasporic novels, refugee imaginaries and migratory  material cultures.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438283},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67754-1},
}