African Women Narrating Identity : Local and Global Journeys of the Self (Paperback)

Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent  Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women’s Lives  1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile  2: Caste, Class, and Women’s Identity in Bessie Head’s Maru  3: Sisters of the Soil: Women’s Resistance in Muthoni Likimani’s Passbook Number F. 47927  4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko’s Faceless  Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women’s Fiction  5: Unveiling Women’s Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela’s Translator and Minaret  6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo  7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego’s Adua  8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Conclusion: Narrating African Women’s Lives in Africa and the Diaspora