Información General

• Autores: Silvia Pellicer Ortín (coord.), Julia Tofantšuk (coord.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
• Año de publicación: 2019
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32199-1
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  • Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing, edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Tofantšuk

    Violeta Duce

    Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 60, 2019, págs. 161-165

Resumen

• Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    • The female body and self in the glocal: plights and opportunities for contemporary diasporic women

      Silvia Pellicer Ortín, Julia Tofantšuk

      págs. 1-22

      

  • Section 1. Unbelonginess and displacement in the diaspora : finding a voice through narrative

    • The travelling bodies of African prostitutes in the transnational space in Chris Abani's "Becoming Abigail" (2006) and Chika Unigwe's "On Black Sisters' Street" (2009)

      Cédric Courtois

      págs. 25-45

      

    • A traumatic romance of (un)belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo's "We Need New Names"

      Merve Sarıkaya-Şen

      págs. 46-60

      

  • Section 2. Globality, locality and cosmopolitanism

    • Dancing across nations: the transnational and the glocal in Zadie Srnith's "Swing Time"

      Ana Beatriz Pérez Zapata

      págs. 63-77

      

    • Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan daughters of the diaspora

      Rocío Cobo Piñero

      págs. 78-94

      

  • Section 3. Defining feminine spaces : home, self, identity and food

    • "By Way of Their Fingers": making sense of self and home in selected short stories by Edwidge Danticat, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

      Corinne Bigot

      págs. 97-115

      

    • In the kitchen with Monica Ali: flavouring gender and diaspora

      Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato

      págs. 116-137

      

  • Section 4. Femininity, spatiality and liminality

    • Recalling female migration in contemporary Irish novels: an intersectional approach

      María Amor Barros del Río

      • Resumen

      págs. 141-157

      

    • Liminality and affective mobility in Anne Enright's "The Green Road"

      Selen Aktari-Sevgi

      págs. 158-178

      

    • Movement, places and knotted history in Charlotte Mendelson's "Almost English"

      Julia Tofantšuk

      págs. 179-199

      

  • Section 5. Crossing borders : female bodies and identities in transit

    • Travelling the US-Mexican border, challenging chicanidad

      Paul Rüsse, Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte Aranaga

      págs. 203-220

      

    • Under the skin of British History: bodies in transit in Andrea Levy's "Small Island" (2004)

      Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Carazo

      págs. 221-236

      

    • Short stories on the move: remapping the diasporic Jewish and female self in Michelene Wandor's "False Relations" (2004a)

      Silvia Pellicer Ortín

      págs. 237-260