Love and space in contemporary African diasporic women's writing : making love, making worlds / Jennifer Leetsch.
Leetsch, Jennifer, author.
2021
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Title Love and space in contemporary African diasporic women's writing : making love, making worlds / Jennifer Leetsch.
Author Leetsch, Jennifer, author.
ISBN 9783030677541 (electronic bk.)
3030677540 (electronic bk.)
9783030677534
3030677532
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67754-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-67754-1 doi
Call Number PN841
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.89287096
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing.
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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.

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