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Book Synopsis Daughters of the Diaspora by : Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Download or read book Daughters of the Diaspora written by Miriam DeCosta-Willis and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions. Miriam DeCosta-Willis's comprehensive Introduction, biographical sketches of the authors and their chronological arrangement within the text, provide an accessible history of the evolution of an Afra-Hispanic literary tradition in the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America. The book will be useful as textbook in courses in Africana Studies, Women's Studies, Caribbean, Latina and Latin American Studies as well as courses in literature and the humanities.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Diaspora, Get Ready by : Julie A. Gibson
Download or read book Daughters of the Diaspora, Get Ready written by Julie A. Gibson and published by Sanctuary Books Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and compelling book will motivate Black women to get in position to receive divine reparations from the Kingdom of God. Concise, clear and stimulating, this book explains the spiritual principle of recompense as it helps prepare women for destiny. Get ready to be greatly used by God in these end-times in the areas of economic justice, nation building and church restoration.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Diaspora in Search of a Mother(land) by : Shelia Y. Morgan
Download or read book Daughters of the Diaspora in Search of a Mother(land) written by Shelia Y. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love by : Makiko Nishitani
Download or read book Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love written by Makiko Nishitani and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships. Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love challenges the conventional discourse on migration, which typically characterizes intergenerational changes from tradition to modernity, from relational to individual, and from obligation to autonomy and freedom. Rather, through an intimate examination of Tongan women’s everyday engagement with kinship relationships, Nishitani highlights how migrant women and their daughters born outside Tonga together create a field of relationships with kin and kin-like people, and navigate between individualistic, personal desires and familial duties and obligations. Their negotiations are not limited to a local frame of reference, but encompass vast distances, including relationships with relatives in places like Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the “home” island nation. Tongan women manage these relationships across diverse modes of communication: face-to-face interactions in homes and at church, lengthy telephone conversations on fixed phone lines in kitchens, and interactions on social media accessed on living room computers shared between neighboring households. Relationships between migrant mothers and second-generation daughters are suffused with warmth and empathy, as well as tensions and misunderstandings. Nishitani’s work demonstrates the critical contemporary relevance of classical anthropological kinship studies and gift theories as tools that can help us to understand transnationalism in the “digital” age. Through reflections on feminist geography, social theory of technology, Bourdieu’s field theory, and media studies, Nishitani makes a convincing call for anthropologists to use relationships rather than geographical places as a site of anthropological fieldwork in order to understand the sociality of diasporic people. Filled with rich, intimate portrayals of diasporic women’s everyday lives and the everyday politics of familial relationships, Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love will appeal to students and scholars of the anthropology of migration, of communication technologies and social media, and of gender and familial relationships, as well as to those interested in fieldwork methodology, transnational and migration studies, and Pacific studies.
Book Synopsis Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women by : Youna Kim
Download or read book Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media? Are they becoming cosmopolitan subjects? Exploring the key questions within their particular socio-economic and cultural contexts, this book analyzes the contradictions of cosmopolitan identity formation and challenges the general assumptions of cosmopolitanism. It considers the highly visible, fastest growing, yet little studied phenomenon of women’s transnational migration and the role of the media in everyday life, offering detailed empirical data on the nature of the women’s diaspora. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book provides an empirically grounded and theoretically insightful investigation into this evolving phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Daughters of Silence by : Rebecca Fisseha
Download or read book Daughters of Silence written by Rebecca Fisseha and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family. Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa -- her birth place. Grieving her mother's recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa -- compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie's conflicted past stands in her way. Just as the volcano's eruption disordered Dessie's work life, so too does her mother's death cause seismic disruptions in the fine balance of self-deceptions and false histories that uphold her family. As Dessie reacquaints herself with her grandfather's house, familiar yet strangely alien to her diasporic sensibilities, she pieces together the family secrets: the trauma of dictatorship and civil war, the shame of unwed motherhood, the abuse met with silence that gives shape to the mystery of her mother's life. Reminiscent of the deeply immersive writing of Taiye Selasi and Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Fisseha's Daughters of Silenceis psychologically astute and buoyed both by metaphor and by the vibrant colours of Ethiopia. It's an impressive debut.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Diaspora by : Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Download or read book Daughters of the Diaspora written by Miriam DeCosta-Willis and published by I. Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diaspora's Daughters by : Heather A. Hewett
Download or read book Diaspora's Daughters written by Heather A. Hewett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Daughters of Africa by : Various Authors
Download or read book New Daughters of Africa written by Various Authors and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.
Book Synopsis Daughter of the Diaspora by : Toiia L. Rukuni
Download or read book Daughter of the Diaspora written by Toiia L. Rukuni and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing this book of poetry, I wanted to transform the ideas and souls of African women around the world. I wanted to gain a better understanding of the struggles and challenges that women face on all corners of the earth. I wanted to unite African women in the African Diaspora by our common beliefs and missions in life. I wanted to cross all social, political, and religious boundaries that may have separated us through the trans-Atlantic slave trade. My mission statement is for all women to embrace their natural beauty, and to live a healthy holistic life. This book of poetry is for those women searching for love and solitude. This book of poetry is to encourage others to find the beauty, love, and freedom from within themselves. Although we may travel different pathways to completeness, we share the common bond of sisterhood. This poetry book is for women who have overcome adversity and obstacles in their lives. I think that the ability to speak honestly about our hopes and fears is the ultimate freedom. The words that were written in this book are thoughts and emotions from the bottom of my heart. I truly believe that the creator guided my energy into the universe to write this book. At a time when I felt that that all of my support systems were breaking down around me, this book of poetry became a therapeutic way for me to express myself during the completion of my master's degree program. A circle of women who I am honored to call my friends, helped to support my efforts and celebrate life's wonders. The words are to help others gain power and continue to fight for their beliefs in complete womanhood. During the writing of this book I discovered that women, especially Black women, struggle with double life issues. We are trained as children to sacrifice and work for the family. But we seldom remember to take care of ourselves and love ourselves first. The freedom from within is one small step towards remembering the Queen in all of us and celebrating her beauty, love, humility, honesty, and courage.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Diaspora by : Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Download or read book Daughters of the Diaspora written by Miriam DeCosta-Willis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora by : Bayan Founas
Download or read book Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora written by Bayan Founas and published by Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, Founas outlines her life experiences and views through poetry. As the daughter of Algerian immigrants, she depicts the realities of growing up in America in the diaspora - leaving her between two foreign lands. She also provides a unique glimpse into the glories and traumas of educating black and brown youth in Detroit. This body of work is HER story as a first-generation Muslim woman growing up in America - a narrative that is rarely told from one's own perspective."This poignant book of poetry spans an expansive array of topics: Islamophobia, microaggressions, racial identity, misogyny, the Trump administration, the occupation of Palestine, U.S.-led wars, European colonialism, and violence against African American communities. In the midst of living the challenges of diaspora, readers also experience the joy of falling in love and the pain of heartbreak. Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora courageously captures the local and global politics that structure our lives today."-Evelyn Alsultany, author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11
Book Synopsis Indian Daughters Abroad by : Vijaya Joshi
Download or read book Indian Daughters Abroad written by Vijaya Joshi and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daughters in the Diaspora by : Shameen Ali
Download or read book Daughters in the Diaspora written by Shameen Ali and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora by : Sanaz Fotouhi
Download or read book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora written by Sanaz Fotouhi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote, and are still writing, of their experiences. Formed at the junctions of Iranian culture, English language and Western cultures, this body of work has not only formed a unique literary space, offering an insightful reflection of Iranian diasporic experiences and its shifting nature, but it has also been making a unique and understudied contribution to World Literatures in English as significant as Indian, African and Asian writing in English. Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they have emerged. Fotouhi brings together, introduces and analyses, for the first time, a significant range of diasporic Iranian writers alongside each other and alongside other diasporic literatures in English. While situating this body of work through existing theories such as postcolonialism, Fotouhi sheds new light on the role of Iranian literature and culture in Western literature by showing that these writings distinctively reflect experiences unique to the Iranian diaspora. Analysing the relationship between Iranians and their new surroundings, by drawing on theories of migration, narration and identity, Fotouhi examines how the literature borne out of the Iranian diaspora reconstructs, maintains and negotiates their Individual and communal identities and reflects today's socio-political realities. This book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those interested in the cultural history of the Middle East.
Book Synopsis The Gurkha's Daughter by : Prajwal Parajuly
Download or read book The Gurkha's Daughter written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number one bestseller in India and a shortlisted nomination for the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Gurkha's Daughter is a distinctive debut from a rising star in South Asian literature. This collection of stories captures the textures and sounds of the Nepalese diaspora through eight intimate, nuanced portraits, taking us from the hillside city of Darjeeling, India to a tucked away Nepalese restaurant in New York City. The daily struggles of Parajuly's characters reveal histories of war, colonial occupation, religious division, systemized oppression, and dispossession in the diverse geographical intersection of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and China. In a cruel remark by a wealthy doctor to her tenant shopkeeper, we hear the persistent injustice of the caste system; in the contentious relationship between a wealthy widow and her sister-in-law, we glimpse the restricted lives and submissive social roles of Nepalese women; and in a daughter's relationship with her father, we find a dissonance between modernity and tradition that has echoed through the generations in unexpected ways. Across different ethnicities, religions, and other social distinctions, the characters in these share a universal yearning, not just for survival but for a better life; one with love, dignity, and community. In The Gurkha's Daughter, Parajuly reveals the small acts of bravery--the sustaining, driving hope--that bind together the human experience.
Book Synopsis Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora by : Grace Aneiza Ali
Download or read book Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora written by Grace Aneiza Ali and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana. Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability. This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies. Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her curatorial research practice centers on socially engaged art practices, global contemporary art, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora, with a focus on her homeland Guyana.
