Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic : (En)Gendering Literature and Performance (Hardcover)

Introduction: (En)Gendering the Black Atlantic Part I. Diasporic Materialities A. Body Politics 1. Seeing Black and the Color of Representation Fo Wilson  2. ‘i think i might be broken’. The Reconstitution of Black Atlantic Bodies and Memories in Sharon Bridgforth’s Delta Dandi Ana-Maurine Lara  3. Black British Women’s Literature and the Politics of Hair Tracey L Walters B. Reconfiguring Space 4. Lyrical Cartographies: Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the Black Atlantic in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return and At the Full and Change of the Moon Mathilde Mergeai  5. Diasporic Caribbean Women Transcending Dystopian Spaces and Reconnecting Fragmented Identities in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber Myriam Moise  6. The Black Atlantic and Home: Women and Migrations in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die and Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins Carolyn Hart  7. Roots and Rootedness: Unearthing (En)gendered Identities in Donna Weir-Soley’s First Rain Claudia May  Part II. Diasporic Journeys A. Re-Routing The Black Atlantic 8. The Dancing Couple in Black Atlantic Space Ananya Kabir  9. Mapping Transatlantic Feminist Cartographies through Black Atlantic Cinema Emilia Maria Duran Almarza  10. Negotiating Belonging: Yvonne Vera’s Politics of Location Anna-Leena Toivanen  B. M/Othering The Black Atlantic 11. M/Othering Black Female Subjectivity across the Black Atlantic in the Novels of Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos  12. The Sea-People of  Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms: Reconceptualizing Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic through Considerations of Myth and Motherhood Giselle Liza Anatol