Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing: Defying the Ontology of the Stranger...

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Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez (University of Oviedo, Spain)

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing

Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez (University of Oviedo, Spain)

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Routledge
15 December 2023

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Gender studies: women; Black & Asian studies

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

"This book is an in-depth study of the category ""stranger"" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s investigation of ""stranger fetishism"" in her title Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (2000) and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of ""stranger"". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, ""strange(r)ness"" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges.

This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies."

By: Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez (University of Oviedo Spain)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781032526690
ISBN 10: 1032526696
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Rethinking the Stranger from an Emotional and Literary Perspective 2. Choicelessness and Hopes in and beyond Literary Africa 3. Becoming “Black”: Towards Racial Critical Consciousness 4. Contemporary Experiences of the Return to Africa Conclusions

"Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez is ""Margarita Salas"" Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo and the postcolonial research centre CEREP based at the University of Liege. She is a member of the University of Oviedo’s consolidated Research Group ""Intersections: Literatures, Cultures and Contemporary Theories""."