African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism
This special issue of Wagadu, edited by Cheryl Sterling, Associate Professor of English and Director of Black Studies, The City College, City University of New York, explores what it means for African and African Diaspora women writers and artists to create imaginatively in the transnational sphere.
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| Editorial: The Word in the World: Transnationalism and African/African Diasporic Women’s Writing | PDF | HTML |
| Cheryl Sterling | |
| Bastardly Duppies & Dastardly Dykes: Queer Sexuality And The Supernatural In Michelle Cliff’s Abeng And Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms At Night | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Rahul K. Gairola | |
| Deconstructing the Ivorian Vestimentary Traditions: New Fashion, Contemporary Beauty and New Identity in Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie’s Aya de Yopougon | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Richard Oko Ajah and Letitia Egege | |
| Gendered Ecologies and Black Feminist Futures in Ibi Zoboi’s “The Farming of Gods,” Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi, and Wangechi Mutu’s The End of Eating Everything | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Amanda Renée Rico | |
| Rupturing the Genre: Un-Writing Silence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Felix Mutunga Ndaka | |
| Exploring the Gendered Nature of National Violence: The Intersection of Patriarchy and Civil Conflict in Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu (Mornings Under Curfew) | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Janice Spleth | |
| On Memory and Resistance: Motherhood, Community and Dispossession in Zora Moreno’s Coqui corihundo vira el mundo (1981) | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Stephanie Gomez Menzies | |
| Dutch Caribbean Women’s Literary Thought: Activism through Linguistic and Cosmopolitan Multiplicity | ABSTRACT | PDF | HTML |
| Florencia Cornet | |
Book Reviews |
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| White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker, Duke University Press, 2016 | PDF | HTML |
| Jakki Forester |
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| AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood by Robert Wyrod, University of California Press, 2016 | PDF | HTML |
| Miriam Kyomugasho | |
| Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press, 2017 | PDF | HTML |
| Alonso Peña | |