'It was a departure of sorts': glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah.
This article takes off from two of the angles of contention found in critical responses to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and subsequent Atlanticist studies: asymmetries and exclusions along gender lines, and insufficient attention to the dynamics of contemporary global capital. It examines what g...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 224 - 243 |
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