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Hewett, Heather Anne.

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Diaspora's daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the remapping of mother Africa (Nigeria, Haiti).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Diaspora's daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the remapping of mother Africa (Nigeria, Haiti)./
Author:	Hewett, Heather Anne.
Description:	396 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-07, Section: A, page: 2422.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3020701
ISBN:	0493323252

Diaspora's daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the remapping of mother Africa (Nigeria, Haiti).
Hewett, Heather Anne.

Diaspora's daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the remapping of mother Africa (Nigeria, Haiti). - 396 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-07, Section: A, page: 2422.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001.

This dissertation traces the theoretical genealogy of the “African diaspora” and explores how three black women writers and filmmakers—Nigerian British writer Buchi Emecheta, African American filmmaker and writer Julie Dash, and Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat—redefine this concept in their work. As theorists like Paul Gilroy have argued, international and intercultural exchange has always characterized and constituted a global black community. These three writers, who all draw on the explanatory power of the African diaspora, represent trends in contemporary black women's diasporic literature. By representing the bodily and migratory experiences of black These writers' narratives explore how past events of the African diaspora (slavery, displacement, and migration) haunt their characters' present movements and mark their bodies. They depict how reclaiming the body's territory counters physical and psychological violence, challenges existing power structures, and disrupts categories such as nationality, race, and gender. Through language and image, they present a complex view of women's “diasporic bodies,” whose multiple layers—the individual body, the communal body, and the artist's body of work—extend current epistemologies of the embodied subject and of migration. By imagining the totality of women's experience, which includes the body, intellect, emotions, spirit, and community, the writers in this study explore how women's diasporic bodies can author new cycles of healing.

ISBN: 0493323252Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Diaspora's daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the remapping of mother Africa (Nigeria, Haiti).
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