TY - BOOK AU - Pinto,Samantha TI - Difficult diasporas: the transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic SN - 9780814789360 (electronic bk.) AV - HQ1787 .P56 2013eb U1 - 305.42096 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Feminism KW - Africa KW - African diaspora KW - African American women authors KW - African American women KW - Intellectual life KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The world and the "jar"? : Jackie Kay and the feminist locations of the African diaspora -- It's lonely at the bottom : Elizabeth Alexander, Deborah Richards, and the cosmopolitan poetics of the Black body -- The drama of dislocation : staging diaspora history in the work of Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo -- Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Brodber, and the gendered fictions of Black modernity -- Intimate migrations : narrating "third world women" in the short fiction of Bessie Head, Zo Wicomb, and Pauline Melville -- Impossible objects : M. Nourbese Philip, Harryette Mullen, and the diaspora feminist aesthetics of accumulation UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=619602 ER -