Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Uwakweh's lucid, highly relevant book compellingly explores the meanings of gendered African migratory experiences from emigration and transnationalism to reverse migration. In this valuable account of contemporary Afrodiasporic women's writing, the discussion of the aesthetics of mobile technologies and the conceptualization of diasporic returns provide particularly refreshing insights into migration mobilities in fiction."

Anna-Leena Toivanen, Academy Research Fellow, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

"Uwakweh takes us beyond the now familiar concept of the Afropolitan to consider other matters of interest to female writers of the new African diaspora, including perceptions of history, generational differences, and professional development among others. In so doing, she opens up new vistas for critical engagement with these writers."

Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis, USA

"Women Writers of the New African Diaspora provides a timely addition to dialogs about African women writers' explorations of the combined impact of mobility, transnationalism, religion and Afropolitan identities on gender and immigration. A compelling examination of the roots-and-routes of Black identity in contemporary Africa's ongoing transnational literary project."

Anthonia C. Kalu, University of California-Riverside, USA

"With eight outstanding works of fiction as a lens, Uwakweh illuminates foundations and feeders of female Diasporan transformations, agency and empowerment. This is a groundbreaking work that offers historic and current perspectives in contextualizing the modern African woman in a manner that is at once thoroughgoing, erudite, insightful and accessible."

Benjamin Kwakye novelist and poet, winner of the 1999 and 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prizes (Africa Region)

"Uwakweh's comprehensive study of eight, transnational African women writers exploring the different intersectionalities specific to women migrants significantly adds to the growing scholarship of Afrodiasporic literature. Her insightful analysis of the characters' complex relationships between their host and home countries underscores the need for new paradigms for theorizing African literature."

Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Professor Emerita, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA