Ayo A Coly: 3 books

Book cover of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures

by Ayo A. Coly
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010

While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category...
Book cover of Postcolonial Hauntologies

Postcolonial Hauntologies

African Women's Discourses of the Female Body

by Ayo A. Coly
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial...
Book cover of Dialogues across Diasporas

Dialogues across Diasporas

Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation

by Meredith E. Abarca, Gabriela Durán Barraza, Sasha Pimentel Chacón
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
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