Women on the Move

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.Julia Kuznetski is Associate Professor of British Literature and curator of Liberal Arts in Humanities programme at Tallinn University, Estonia.

"A most timely, informative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study on literature’s potential to explore the representation of femininity in contemporary diasporic narratives in English." -- Dolores Herrero, University of Zaragoza, Spain."A must-read in Humanities to understand what story-telling may be about in a world of changes, crises and (self-)reconstruction." -- Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud, Professor of English, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsForewordDisturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of MigrationJill LewisIntroductionThe Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic WomenSilvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia KuznetskiSECTION 1Unbelonginess and Displacement in the Diaspora: Finding a Voice Through Narrative1 The Travelling Bodies of African Prostitutes in the Transnational Space in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail (2006) and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009)Ceìdric Courtois 2 A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New NamesMerve Sarikaya-Şen SECTION 2Globality, Locality and Cosmpolitanism3 Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith’s Swing TimeBeatriz Pérez Zapata4 Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the DiasporaMaría Rocío Cobo-PiñeroSECTION 3Defining Feminine Spaces: Home, Self, Identity and Food5 "By Way of Their Fingers": Making Sense of Self and Home in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCorinne Bigot 6 In the Kitchen with Monica Ali: Flavouring Gender and DiasporaChiara Battisti and Sidia FioratoSECTION 4Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality 7 Recalling Female Migration in Contemporary Irish Novels: An Intersectional ApproachMaria Amor Barros-del Río 8 Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright’s The Green Road Selen Aktari-Sevgi 9 Movement, Places and Knotted History in Charlotte Mendelson’s Almost EnglishJulia KuznetskiSECTION 5Crossing Borders: Female Bodies and Identities in Transit10 Travelling the US-Mexican Border, Challenging ChicanidadPaul Rüsse and Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte 11 Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy’s Small IslandCarolina Sánchez-Palencia 12 Short Stories on the Move: Mapping Memory and Constructing the (Jewish) Diasporic Female Self in Michelene Wandor’s False RelationsSilvia Pellicer-OrtínIndex