This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers Yaa Gyasi Chika Unigwe Chimamanda Adichie Imbole Mbue No Violet Bulawayo Aminatta Forna Taiye Selasi and Leila Aboulela and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers’ works by revealing emerging trends in women’s literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations constructions of home and belonging as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging and taken as a whole it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars students and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends approaches to transnational literature and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear. |Women Writers of the New African Diaspora Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency | African Studies
