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DEFINING DIASPORA IN THE WORDS OF WOMEN WRITERS: A Feminist Reading of Chimamanda Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck" and Dionne Brand's "At the Full and Change of the Moon"
Ist Teil von
Callaloo, 2014-10, Vol.37 (5), p.1230-1244
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In an interview assessing the impact of her famous essay "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" two decades after its publication, Hortense Spillers comments that the Black Atlantic, the Black Diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and similar framings of the transnational tend to obfuscate the complexities of gender and the concerns of women. Here, Ryan takes Spiller's observation as an invitation for reading two texts by women from either side of the Atlantic, Dionne Brand and Chimamanda Adichie, who have located women at the heart of Caribbean and African diasporas. These narratives of migration do not evade gender but rather generate richer representations of what it means to be black and female in the diaspora. As the women in Brand's and Adichie's novels leave home and enter a migratory space--call it the Black Atlantic, the Black Diaspora, or a cosmopolitan space--their experiences demonstrate that these transnational spaces present their own gendered hierarchies and their own threats to women.