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"This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book aims to inspire critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the import of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear"--

Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by Nanjala Nyabola