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Coly, Ayo Abietou.

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Searching for home: The expatriate African woman writer as nomad (Calixthe Beyala, Cameroon, Ken Bugul, Senegal, Assia Djebar, Algeria, Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, Lauretta Ngcobo, South Africa).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Searching for home: The expatriate African woman writer as nomad (Calixthe Beyala, Cameroon, Ken Bugul, Senegal, Assia Djebar, Algeria, Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, Lauretta Ngcobo, South Africa)./
Author:	Coly, Ayo Abietou.
Description:	243 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Thomas A. Hale.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3020438
ISBN:	0493313117

Searching for home: The expatriate African woman writer as nomad (Calixthe Beyala, Cameroon, Ken Bugul, Senegal, Assia Djebar, Algeria, Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, Lauretta Ngcobo, South Africa).
Coly, Ayo Abietou.

Searching for home: The expatriate African woman writer as nomad (Calixthe Beyala, Cameroon, Ken Bugul, Senegal, Assia Djebar, Algeria, Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, Lauretta Ngcobo, South Africa). - 243 p.

Adviser: Thomas A. Hale.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2001.

This study uses expatriation as an analytical framework for exploring the works of African women who have left their African homelands and have relocated to the West. These five authors, Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon, Ken Bugul from Senegal, Assia Djebar from Algeria, Buchi Emecheta from Nigeria, and Lauretta Ngcobo from South Africa, have already received much critical attention, but this scholarship has generally focused on their gender, and has overlooked their space of literary expression. In this dissertation, I argue that their expatriation triggers a nomadic subjectivity, and I trace its emergence and affirmation in their texts.

ISBN: 0493313117Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Searching for home: The expatriate African woman writer as nomad (Calixthe Beyala, Cameroon, Ken Bugul, Senegal, Assia Djebar, Algeria, Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, Lauretta Ngcobo, South Africa).
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520 $a This study uses expatriation as an analytical framework for exploring the works of African women who have left their African homelands and have relocated to the West. These five authors, Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon, Ken Bugul from Senegal, Assia Djebar from Algeria, Buchi Emecheta from Nigeria, and Lauretta Ngcobo from South Africa, have already received much critical attention, but this scholarship has generally focused on their gender, and has overlooked their space of literary expression. In this dissertation, I argue that their expatriation triggers a nomadic subjectivity, and I trace its emergence and affirmation in their texts.
520 $a My main concern in this study, however, is to show how the texts of these writers challenge, in many different ways, the current notion of nomadism, which, as theorized in postmodern thought, is presented as a pleasant condition of unbounded mobility brought about by the intensity and fluidity of transnational movements, as well, as the physical and theoretical assaults on “naturalized” territorial and identitary boundaries. What the narratives of these African women authors expose, however, is that the postmodern figure of the nomad, like many metaphors used in cultural criticism nowadays, although this is often unacknowledged, describes the experiences of a limited category of individuals who are freed of the confines of race, class, gender, space, and nationality.
520 $a Using the works of these expatriate writers as maps of their nomadic wanderings, I demonstrate that their textual back-and-forth commutations between their points of departure and arrival lack the “jouissance” that characterizes the usual understandings of postmodern nomadism. Whereas the postmodern nomad deliberately moves away from home, and towards “deterritorialization,” these writers, whose homing desires have remained painfully unfulfilled in both their native and adopted lands, are engaged in a quest for safe and nurturing homes. In other words, they have not chosen nomadism, they were chosen by nomadism, having been forced into this path by a variety of circumstances. In addition, the predominance of characters who are victims of racial and sexual divisions of space, as well as of panopticon-like policing of identities, counters the postmodern claim of a nomad's “smooth space.”
520 $a Besides complementing research that questions some of the metaphors problematically appropriated by cultural criticism, this dissertation, by presenting alternative frameworks for interpreting the texts of African women writers, also attempts to open new avenues for gender criticism in African literary studies.
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