Diasporic Women’s Writing of the Black Atlantic

Emilia María Durán-Almarza is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English Philology, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.Esther Álvarez López is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English Philology, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.

• Introduction: (En)Gendering the Black Atlantic Part I. Diasporic Materialities A. Body Politics 1. Seeing Black and the Color of Representation Fo Wilson 2. ‘i think i might be broken’. The Reconstitution of Black Atlantic Bodies and Memories in Sharon Bridgforth’s Delta Dandi Ana-Maurine Lara 3. Black British Women’s Literature and the Politics of Hair Tracey L Walters B. Reconfiguring Space 4. Lyrical Cartographies: Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the Black Atlantic in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return and At the Full and Change of the Moon Mathilde Mergeai 5. Diasporic Caribbean Women Transcending Dystopian Spaces and Reconnecting Fragmented Identities in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber Myriam Moïse 6. The Black Atlantic and Home: Women and Migrations in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die and Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins Carolyn Hart 7. Roots and Rootedness: Unearthing (En)gendered Identities in Donna Weir-Soley’s First Rain Claudia May Part II. Diasporic Journeys A. Re-Routing The Black Atlantic 8. The Dancing Couple in Black Atlantic Space Ananya Kabir 9. Mapping Transatlantic Feminist Cartographies through Black Atlantic Cinema Emilia María Durán Almarza 10. Negotiating Belonging: Yvonne Vera’s Politics of Location Anna-Leena Toivanen B. M/Othering The Black Atlantic 11. M/Othering Black Female Subjectivity across the Black Atlantic in the Novels of Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez Ana María Fraile-Marcos 12. The Sea-People of Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms: Reconceptualizing Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic through Considerations of Myth and Motherhood Giselle Liza Anatol