West African Women in the Diaspora
West African Women in the Diaspora

Author: Rose A. Sackeyfio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-08

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1000474488

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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 post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora women’s fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa’s borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of African women’s experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, women’s and world literature.

Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora

Author: R. Marie Griffith

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-09-22

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780801883699

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This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Binding Cultures
Binding Cultures

Author: Gay Wilentz

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1992-05-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780253207142

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"Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." —Nellie McKay "Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field." —Choice "Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding—and embracing—the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization." —Belles Lettres Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community.

Redefining the African Diaspora
Redefining the African Diaspora

Author: Mevi Hova

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781339302331

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Chapter two focuses on Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference and considers how the global and nationalistic demands of migration affect the diasporic African woman in her quest to achieve self-affirmation and the ways in which she explores new avenues for herself through gender identity.

Holding the World Together
Holding the World Together

Author: Nwando Achebe

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 029932110X

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Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
Women in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author: Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13:

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Women in Africa and the African Diaspora examines the role and place of women of the African diaspora. Contributors clarify the concept, methodology, and projected guidelines for studies of women throughout the African diaspora.

Gendering the African Diaspora
Gendering the African Diaspora

Author: Judith Ann-Marie Byfield

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0253354161

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"This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices."--Back cover.

African Women in the Atlantic World
African Women in the Atlantic World

Author: Mariana P. Candido

Publisher: Western Africa

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781847012159

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FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.

Representation and Resistance
Representation and Resistance

Author: Jaspal Kaur Singh

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1552382451

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Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.