241 p., Explores the power children realize in the past, present, and future from their real or imagined connections to their absent mothers in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African diasporic women's fiction, science fiction, and film. Much of the existing scholarship on the diasporic mother focuses on her place in history, yet texts by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Gayl Jones, Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Nisi Shawl, and Julie Dash suggest through their depictions of the lasting links children create with their mothers that the power of the diasporic mother and, by proxy, the black family and community extends into the future.
306 p., This project brings together adventure novels by white British authors, like Frederick Marryat, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and H. Rider Haggard, and African American and Afro-Caribbean texts by authors like Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, and Maxwell Philip, to argue that the sensational elements of the adventure genre that were so effective in developing British national identity were appropriated by African American and Afro-Caribbean authors to re-imagine national identity as a flexible and multi-ethnic concept.
Boisseron,Bénédicte (Editor) and Ekotto,Frieda (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
French
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Pessac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
151 p., Includes "Parcours d'un corps" / Raphaël Confiant (Martinique); "Sa Légèreté Libellule" / Jean Bernabé (Martinique); "Les derniers jours d'une mulâtresse" / Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique); "Wayang Kulit" / Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe); "Chocolater son petit corps" / Suzanne Dracius (Martinique); "La Femme-Fleuve" / Ernest Pépin (Guadeloupe); "Une chouette dans un Port-au-Prince sans électricité" / Dany Laferrière (Haïti/Canada); and "L'ex-île" / Daniel Maximin (Guadeloupe).
