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Africana women writers :

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9781433113802 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1453901884 (ebook)

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Africana women writers :

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performing diaspora, staging healing /

DeLinda Marzette

New York :

Peter Lang,

c2013

152 p. ;

24 cm

Studies on themes and motifs in literature,

vol. 108

1056-3970 ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-152)

Making rite : w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking -- Coming to voice : navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock -- Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé -- Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales : women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- For colored girls : treading storms, discovering rainbows

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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers--emanating from Cameroon (Nicole Werewere Liking), Britain (Winsome Pinnock), Guadeloupe (Maryse Condé and Simone Schwartz-Bart), Nigeria (Tess Onwueme), and the United States (Ntozake Shange)--move beyond static, conventional notions regarding blackness and being female and reconfigure newer identities and spaces to thrive. DeLinda Marzette explores the numerous ways these women writers create black female agency and vital, energizing communities. Contextually, she uses the term diaspora to refer to the mass dispersal of peoples from their homelands--herein Africa--to other global locations; objects of diasporic dispersal, these individuals then become a kind of migrant, physically and psychologically. Each author shares a diasporic heritage; hence, much of their subjects, settings, and themes express diaspora consciousness. Marzette explores who these women are, how they define themselves, how they convey and experience their worlds, how they broach, loosen, and explode the multiple yokes of race, class, and gender-based oppression and exploitation in their works. What is fostered, encouraged, shunned, ignored--the spoken, the unspoken and, perhaps, the unspeakable--are all issues of critical exploration. Ultimately, all the women of this study depend on female bonds for survival, enrichment, healing, and hope. The plays by these women are especially important in that they add a diverse dimension to the standard dramatic canon.--Publisher website

African diaspora in literature

African drama-- Women authors-- Themes, motives

American drama-- Women authors-- Themes, motives

Caribbean drama (French)-- Women authors-- Themes, motives

Drama-- Black authors-- History and criticism

Drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism

English drama-- Women authors-- Themes, motives

Women, Black, in literature

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Marzette, DeLinda

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