@misc{10481/48435,
year = {2017},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/48435},
abstract = {In postcolonial studies, diasporic criticism has proved to be very useful at
destabilizing the limitations and prescriptions of a nationalist approach in
cultural studies. Similarly, intimacy discourses have emerged to undermine
hegemonic notions of public/private and personal/political. Defining the
literary production of Afro-Caribbean women writers implies to address
processes of identity formation in matters of racial, cultural, geographical and
gender belonging. One of the objects of studying Opal Palmer Adisa's texts is
to identify and scrutinize her attempts to engage and disable hegemonic
discourses on the proper relation between public and private spaces, which
have generally been associated with the gendered division of labor. It is my
contention that in addressing domestic and intimate spaces for the recreation
of one's culture—and in bringing them into the spaces of the imagination that
geographical displacement entails—writers in the diaspora like Adisa are
bringing forward the importance of recreating personal, valuable cultural
references that help to preserve the notion of homeland without falling into
nationalist essentialisms. The contents of intimacy discourses, in this sense,
prove to be as powerful and influential as any other external authority,
inasmuch as both the phenomenology of feeling and the birth of a nation are
products of our common cultural imagination.},
organization = {Tesis Univ. Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Lenguas, Textos y Contextos},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Escritoras},
keywords = {Palmer Adisa, Opal},
keywords = {Estudios transculturales},
keywords = {Identidad étnica},
keywords = {Género},
keywords = {Literatura},
keywords = {Feminismo},
keywords = {Caribe (Región)},
title = {Mappinng postcolonial diasporas and intimacy discourses in the writings of Opal Palmer Adisa},
author = {Serna Martínez, Elisa},
}