TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sackeyfio,Rose A.
TI  - West African women in the diaspora: narratives of other spaces, other selves 
T2  - African diaspora literary and cultural studies
SN  - 9781003219323
U1  - 820.9/92870966 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - West African fiction (English)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African diaspora in literature
KW  - Women, Black, in literature
KW  - Transnationalism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
N1  - "Routledge Focus" -- front cover
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003219323
ER  -