{"id":2370,"date":"2018-10-26T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:45:38","slug":"book-announcement-women-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-women-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Women on the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women on the Move:\u00a0Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing<\/em>
Edited by\u00a0Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn,\u00a0Julia Tofant\u0161uk<\/h1>\n
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Published by Routledge<\/strong>
\n266 pages<\/strong>
\nHardback:\u00a09781138321991<\/strong>
\neBook\u00a0(VitalSource)\u00a0:\u00a09780429452291<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments
\nNotes on Contributors
\nForeword
\nDisturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of Migration,\u00a0Jill Lewis
\nIntroduction:\u00a0The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women,\u00a0Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn and Julia Tofant\u0161uk<\/p>\n

SECTION 1:\u00a0Unbelonginess and Displacement in the Diaspora: Finding a Voice Through Narrative
\n1\u00a0Ce\u00ecdric Courtois:\u00a0The Travelling Bodies of African Prostitutes in the Transnational Space in Chris Abani\u2019s\u00a0Becoming Abigail\u00a0(2006) and Chika Unigwe\u2019s\u00a0On Black\u00a0Sisters\u2019\u00a0Street\u00a0(2009)
\n2\u00a0Merve Sarikaya-\u015een:\u00a0A Traumatic Romance of (Un)Belonginess: NoViolet Bulawayo\u2019s We Need New Names,<\/p>\n

SECTION 2:\u00a0Globality, Locality and Cosmpolitanism
\n3\u00a0Beatriz P\u00e9rez Zapata:\u00a0Dancing Across Nations: The Transnational and the Glocal in Zadie Smith\u2019s\u00a0Swing Time,
\n4\u00a0Mar\u00eda Roc\u00edo Cobo-Pi\u00f1ero:\u00a0Taiye Selasi and the Afropolitan Daughters of the Diaspora,<\/p>\n

SECTION 3:\u00a0Defining Feminine Spaces: Home, Self, Identity and Food
\n5 Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato:\u00a0Corinne Bigot;\u00a0“By Way of Their Fingers”: Making Sense of Self and Home in\u00a0Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni\u00a0and Chimamanda\u00a0Ngozi Adichie<\/p>\n

6\u00a0Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato:\u00a0In the Kitchen with Monica Ali: Flavouring Gender and Diaspora<\/p>\n

SECTION 4:\u00a0Femininity, Spatiality and Liminality
\n7\u00a0Maria Amor Barros-del R\u00edo:\u00a0Recalling Female Migration in Contemporary Irish Novels: An Intersectional Approach<\/p>\n

8\u00a0Selen Aktari-Sevgi:\u00a0Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright\u2019s\u00a0The Green Road<\/p>\n

9\u00a0Julia Tofant\u0161uk:\u00a0Movement, Places and Knotted History in Charlotte Mendelson\u2019s\u00a0Almost English<\/p>\n

SECTION 5:\u00a0Crossing Borders: Female Bodies and Identities in Transit
\n10\u00a0Paul R\u00fcsse and Maialen Antxustegi-Etxarte:\u00a0Travelling the US-Mexican Border, Challenging Chicanidad<\/p>\n

11\u00a0Carolina S\u00e1nchez-Palencia:\u00a0Under the Skin of British History: Bodies in Transit in Andrea Levy\u2019s\u00a0Small Island<\/p>\n

12\u00a0Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn:\u00a0Short Stories on the Move: Mapping Memory and Constructing the (Jewish) Diasporic Female Self in Michelene Wandor\u2019s\u00a0False Relations<\/p>\n

Index<\/p>\n

Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn<\/strong>\u00a0is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
\nJulia Tofant\u0161uk<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of British\u00a0Literature and curator of Liberal Arts in Humanities programme at\u00a0Tallinn University, Estonia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women on the Move:\u00a0Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic WritingEdited by\u00a0Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn,\u00a0Julia Tofant\u0161uk   Published by Routledge 266 pages Hardback:\u00a09781138321991 eBook\u00a0(VitalSource)\u00a0:\u00a09780429452291 Table of Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword Disturbing Transitions: Critical Inner Landscapes of Migration,\u00a0Jill Lewis Introduction:\u00a0The Female Body and Self in the Glocal: Plights and Opportunities for Contemporary Diasporic Women,\u00a0Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}