Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures
1st Edition
By Peter Moopi, Rodwell Makombe
January 30, 2025
This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America. The book deploys the concept of coloniality of migrancy to explore how global ...
Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s Writing: A 21st-Century Global Context
1st Edition
By Dobrota Pucherová
May 27, 2024
This book re-reads the last 60 years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative frame throws into relief patterns across time and space...
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives
1st Edition
By Polo B. Moji
September 25, 2023
This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. The book adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geographies, intersectional feminism, and textual ...
West African Women in the Diaspora: Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves
1st Edition
By Rose A. Sackeyfio
September 25, 2023
This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora. In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from ...
Black Women’s Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses
1st Edition
By Tonia Leigh Wind
May 31, 2023
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a ...
Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories
1st Edition
By Adetayo Alabi
May 31, 2023
Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, ...
Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions
1st Edition
Edited
By Cheryl Sterling
May 31, 2023
This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies. The book demonstrates how in discourse and theory Africana ...
Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Birgit Englert, Barbara Gföllner, Sigrid Thomsen
January 09, 2023
This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world. Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories...
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film
1st Edition
By Rita Keresztesi
December 19, 2022
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in their evaluations of, and insights on, the ...