Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, #127)

by Carol Allen

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Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black subject to wrestle with motion, the self in motion, the community in motion, the spirit in motion, culture in motion, and especially the past in motion. Reviewing these major migratory patterns of Africans to and within the United States from slavery to the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781433132032
  • Publish Date 30 December 2016 (first published 22 December 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc