This study uses expatriation as an analytical framework for exploring the works of African women who have left their African homelands and have relocated to the West. These five authors, Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon, Ken Bugul from Senegal, Assia Djebar from Algeria, Buchi Emec…
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In this dissertation, I argue that the measure of a literary work of art is the degree to which it aids the establishing of the good life. My argument is rooted in Alain Locke's charge to the “Negro”1 writers of his time that they help Negroes out of their disadvantaged situatio…
This project concerns the politics of cultural translation in three texts by female writers at the diverse sites of the world of postcoloniality—Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Buchi Emecheta's The Family , Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. On the level of narrative actio…
The primary women characters in selected fiction by the writers, Jean Rhys, Joan Riley, Buchi Emecheta, and Michelle Cliff are the foci in this comparative study. For these characters, the fictive experiences of whom mirror the biographies of the four writers, there are various …
This study assesses narrative representations of “society in transnationalism” through the framework of globalization theory. The object of the study is to articulate meanings for globalization that both reassert the capitalist-based structures underwriting globalization's new s…
Writing Revolution: Women Writers and Fictions of Nationalism focuses on the works of four female artists, exploring how each author deals with the contingencies of “feminism” and nationalism in her own geo-political locale. It argues that Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young …
This study is an African-centered critical analysis of the portrayal of women by women authors in the contemporary African novel. The inadequacy of European derived critical criteria for evaluating the literatures of non-Western people is becoming increasingly well known. Respon…
This study explores the articulation of diasporic consciousness in two domains of post-colonial diaspora discourse: cultural critical theory and literature. Examined in the domain of cultural critical theory is a corpus of writings produced by Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Kobena Me…
This dissertation uses Bakhtinian intertextuality as a heuristic to read in pairs six contemporary African and Caribbean women's novels. The three dialogues offer alternative literary histories to those of the dominant canons, thus simultaneously constructing and resisting liter…