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Transatlantic Disbelonging

By Bimbola Akinbola

Transatlantic Disbelonging

By Bimbola Akinbola

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In Transatlantic Disbelonging, Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies, allegiances, and identities. Drawing on the work of contemporary visual and performance artists, experimental filmmakers, and writers-including Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Zina Saro-Wiwa, ruby onyinyechi amanze, and Nnedi Okorafor-Akinbola articulates how these artists use their experiences as cultural outsiders to redefine home and national belonging on their own terms. Taking a capacious interdisciplinary approach, she explores how these women employ anti-respectability, taboo, the erotic, and play to challenge oppressive colonial legacies and expectations pertaining to gender and morality. For the artists in this book, their artmaking is a form of homemaking that embraces ambivalence and reinvents alienation as possibility. Theorizing these practices as acts of "disbelonging," Akinbola radically reimagines diasporic identity formation, illustrating how artists use creative practices to enact and embody belonging and community in expansive ways.
Product details
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2025-10-14
Publication Date:
2025-10-14
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478029196
ISBN13:
9781478029199
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
588 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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