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Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

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Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers’ works by revealing emerging trends in women’s literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear.

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250

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Taylor & Francis

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1000824411

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9781000824414

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

By: Martin Munro,ADA Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French Martin Munro

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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

By: Martin Munro,ADA Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French Martin Munro

Haitian writing is one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas, and yet is little known outside of Haiti. This book is an introduction to this literature, focusing on the period from 1946 to the present, a time in which exile has become the dominant theme in Haitian writing. Reading post-1946 Haitian writing as a literature of exile, the chapters analyze key novels by the most important figures of each generation: Jacques-Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, Émile Ollivier, Dany Laferrière, and Edwidge Danticat. The emphasis is on close, detailed readings, and on understanding the particu.

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319

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Liverpool University Press

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1846310792

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9781846310799

Toward a Horizon of Peace

By: Ada Aharoni

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Toward a Horizon of Peace

By: Ada Aharoni

In this fascinating new volume of poetry “Toward a Horizon of Peace,” by renowned universal poet Ada Aharoni, she writes not only to express her feelings through her psychological eye, as in her deeply moving love poems, but also with her probing sociological eye that fully expresses her worry and care for humanity. With all the wars, terror and violence, we have in our global village today, this precious book is a breath of fresh air and hope. Aharoni’s diplomatic poems aim at banishing War from our planet. Her beautiful, intelligent and powerful poems move us to the bone. They influence us to become better and more caring people and they move us to become more involved in our ailing blue planet. Her exciting and thought -provoking poetry elevates us and often cause us to feel we have grown powerful wings that will help us to succeed in banish wars and terror from our lives. Aharoni, through her innovating and powerful lyrical poetry, is a wonderful guide who illuminates with her deep words, the golden path toward a horizon of hope and peace. The book also contains colorful art – Aharoni’s peace paintings, that highly enrich this wonderful and important book.

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373

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Cook Communication

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1387811436

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9781387811434

The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

By: Ronald Manual Doctor,Ada P. Kahn,Christine A. Adamec

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The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

By: Ronald Manual Doctor,Ada P. Kahn,Christine A. Adamec

Explains the meaning of terms and concepts related to specific phobias, forms of therapy, and medicines, and identifies key researchers.

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593

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Infobase Publishing

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1438120982

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9781438120980

African Women Under Fire

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

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African Women Under Fire

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.

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217

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498529194

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9781498529198

British Comment on the United States

A Chronological Bibliography, 1832–1899

By: Ada Nisbet

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British Comment on the United States

A Chronological Bibliography, 1832–1899

By: Ada Nisbet

This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.

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Univ of California Press

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0520915828

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9780520915824

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Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

Toward a Horizon of Peace

Toward a Horizon of Peace

The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

African Women Under Fire

African Women Under Fire

British Comment on the United States

British Comment on the United States

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