ABSTRACT
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. the authors have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
Introduction
The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women
section 1|38 pages
Unbelonginess and Displacement in the Diaspora
section 2|34 pages
Globality, Locality and Cosmopolitanism
chapter 3|15 pages
Dancing across Nations
The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
section 3|43 pages
Defining Feminine Spaces
chapter 5|19 pages
“By Way of Their Fingers”
Making Sense of Self and Home in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
section 4|61 pages
Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality
chapter 7|17 pages
Recalling Female Migration in Contemporary Irish Novels
An Intersectional Approach
section 5|60 pages
Crossing Borders
chapter 11|16 pages
Under the Skin of British History
Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004)
chapter 12|24 pages
Short Stories on the Move
Remapping the Diasporic Jewish and Female Self in Michelene Wandor’s False Relations (2004a)
