Dialogues across Diasporasmakes an important contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on the intimate historical, political, and literary connections between two of the largest diasporic groups in the Americas and beyond – members of the African/a and Latina/o diasporas. This collection not only serves as a useful required text for Diaspora Studies courses, it offers a model for taking discussions of diasporic identities, community politics, and cultural memory beyond the classroom and into the community.
Dialogues across Diasporasmakes an important contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on the intimate historical, political, and literary connections between two of the largest diasporic groups in the Americas and beyond – members of the African/a and Latina/o diasporas. This collection not only serves as a useful required text for Diaspora Studies courses, it offers a model for taking discussions of diasporic identities, community politics, and cultural memory beyond the classroom and into the community.
Marion Rohrleitner is an assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Women's Studies and African American Studies Programs at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches 20th and 21st century American, Chicana/o and Latina/o, Caribbean, and African diasporic literatures. Her articles, book chapters, and book reviews have appeared in American Quarterly, Antípodas: A Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, Callaloo, El Mundo Zurdo, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Latino Studies. Her first book, Diasporic Bodies: Contemporary Historical Fictions and the Intimate Public Sphere, is a finalist for the ICI manuscript competition at Vanderbilt University. Sarah E. Ryan is an empirical research librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. She is an M.L.S. candidate at Texas Woman's University, and holds an M.A. in Interpersonal Communication, Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, and Ph.D. in Rhetorical Criticism from Ohio University. Sarah has published extensively on the topics of good governance and community rebuilding in Rwanda, including a 2012 article in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal entitled "Fulfilling the U.S. obligation to prevent exterminationism: A comprehensive approach to regulating hate speech and dismantling systems of genocide." She has also published in: Contemporary Argumentation & Debate, Journal of Development Communication, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Peace Review, Review of Communication, Women & Language, and in a variety of edited collections and working papers series.
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Preface Introduction Part 1: Diasporic Debates: Exploring the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Migration Chapter 1: 'Harvesting' Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Zora Neale Hurston's Literary (Dis)Articulation of Being, Myriam J.A. Chancy Chapter 2: Not in Our Mother's Image: Ekphrasis and Challenges to Recovering Afro-Mestizaje in Contemporary Latina/Chicana Historical Fiction, Marion Rohrleitner Chapter 3: Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender and Home in Calixthe Beyala's "Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Maman a un Amant", Ayo Abiétou Coly Chapter 4: Embodied Translation: Dominant Discourse and Communication with Migrant Bodies-as-Text, Karma R. Chávez Part 2: Diasporic Dances: Performing Language, History, and Community Chapter 5: in tongues-the trouble inside language. Imag[e]ining presence, Olumide Popoola Chapter 6: A Freedom Stolen, Yvette Christiansë Chapter 7: Reading Yvette Christiansë: Reflections from a Border Scholar Activist, Kathleen Staudt Chapter 8: Pin-Stripe Alley, Nelly Rosario
Preface Introduction Part 1: Diasporic Debates: Exploring the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Migration Chapter 1: 'Harvesting' Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Zora Neale Hurston's Literary (Dis)Articulation of Being, Myriam J.A. Chancy Chapter 2: Not in Our Mother's Image: Ekphrasis and Challenges to Recovering Afro-Mestizaje in Contemporary Latina/Chicana Historical Fiction, Marion Rohrleitner Chapter 3: Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender and Home in Calixthe Beyala's "Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Maman a un Amant", Ayo Abiétou Coly Chapter 4: Embodied Translation: Dominant Discourse and Communication with Migrant Bodies-as-Text, Karma R. Chávez Part 2: Diasporic Dances: Performing Language, History, and Community Chapter 5: in tongues-the trouble inside language. Imag[e]ining presence, Olumide Popoola Chapter 6: A Freedom Stolen, Yvette Christiansë Chapter 7: Reading Yvette Christiansë: Reflections from a Border Scholar Activist, Kathleen Staudt Chapter 8: Pin-Stripe Alley, Nelly Rosario
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