Transnational Africana women's fictions / edited by Cheryl Sterling.

Introduction: Transnational F(r)ictions: The Word, the Gaze, and the Narrative / Cheryl Sterling -- Beyond the Profession: Sylvia Wynter's Decolonial University / Anthony Bayani Rodriguez -- Mapping Diasporic and Transnational Subjectivities: Edwidge Danticat's Narratives of Exile and Un-Belonging / Simone A. James Alexander -- Performing Africana Institutions: The Enchevêtrement of Futures and Faith in the Theater of Werewere Liking / Guillaume Semon Yoboué -- Memory, Identity and Change in Select Short Stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Bernard Otonye Stephen -- Engaging the Diaspora in Contemporary Works by African Women Writers / Rose Sackeyfio -- Transnational Agency, Nollywood Feminist Auteurs and Patriarchy / Olusegun Soetan -- Speculation at the Limits? Articulating History, Genre and the Diasporic Fantastic in Nnedi Okorafor's Arro-yo Stories / Matthew Lecznar -- Going through So Long a Letter and Changes: African Women in the Process of Transformation / Cheryl Sterling -- Italy, Somalia, and the Black Mediterranean, or Reading Igiaba Scego's Adua alongside Bā, Mbembe, Waberi, and Somali Praise Poetry / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken -- The Dismantling of Afropean Families in Léonora Miano's Afropean Soul / Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel -- Gendered Migrations: Transnationalisms and Intersectionalities in the Novels of Francophone African Women / Joyce Hope Scott -- 'A part le bonheur, il n'y a rien d'essentiel:' The Transnational Narrative Model in Maryse Condé's Desirada / Eliana Văgălău.

"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 women are the centers of their own knowledge production and agency, as the artists and their characters point the way forward. Their multiperspectivism leads to avenues of selective mutuality and influence, to generate transformative creative work, scholarship, and practices. Writers included are Sylvia Wynter, Edwidge Danticat, Werewere Liking, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nnedi Okorafor, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igiaba Scego, Leonara Miano, Gisèle Hountondji, Monique Ilboudo, and Maryse Condé, as well as the filmmaker, Kemi Adetiba.Over the course of the book, the contributors critically explore and update the canon on women in the African and African Diaspora Literary sphere, highlighting their contributions to theoretical debates, and providing substantive nuance to diasporic subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of African and Africana Studies, comparative literature and women and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.