001480287 000__ 05455nam\a22008175i\4500 001480287 001__ 1480287 001480287 003__ DE-B1597 001480287 005__ 20231026035134.0 001480287 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480287 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480287 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480287 020__ $$a9780814789360 001480287 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814759486.001.0001$$2doi 001480287 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547723 001480287 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480287 0410_ $$aeng 001480287 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480287 050_4 $$aHQ1787$$b.P56 2016 001480287 072_7 $$aSOC002010$$2bisacsh 001480287 08204 $$a305.42096$$223 001480287 1001_ $$aPinto, Samantha, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480287 24510 $$aDifficult Diasporas :$$bThe Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic /$$cSamantha Pinto. 001480287 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001480287 264_4 $$c©2013 001480287 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480287 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480287 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480287 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480287 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480287 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: The Feminist Disorder of Diaspora -- $$t1 / The World and the "Jar": Jackie Kay and the Feminist Locations of the African Diaspora -- $$t2 / It's Lonely at the Bottom: Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the Cosmopolitan Poetics of the Black Body -- $$t3 / The Drama of Dislocation: Staging Diaspora History in the Work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo -- $$t4 / Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity -- $$t5 / Intimate Migrations: Narrating "Third World Women" in the Short Fiction of Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, and Pauline Melville -- $$t6 / Impossible Objects: M. NourbeSe Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the Diaspora Feminist Aesthetics of Accumulation -- $$tCoda: The Risks of Reading -- $$tNotes -- $$tReferences -- $$tIndex 001480287 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480287 520__ $$aWinner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American LiteratureIn this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African Diaspora.Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship in her study of authors such as Jackie Kay, Elizabeth Alexander, Erna Brodber, Ama Ata Aidoo, among others, Pinto argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. 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