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- Title
Transglocal Fiction: Diasporic Poetics of Resistance in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power (1977) and Marilene Felinto’s As Mulheres de Tijucopapo (1981).
- Authors
WANE, HAPSATOU
- Abstract
This article explores the theme of diasporic identities in two postcolonial literary works, A Question of Power by Bessie Head and The Women of Tijucopapo by Marilene Felinto. Through a comparative analysis, I examine how Elizabeth’s detour into madness in the village of Motabeng and Rísia’s journey to the historical space of Tijucopapo become transformative points of entanglement. These “transglocal” sites foster relational diasporic identities and defy the constraints of national, transnational local, and global affiliations. The article reveals how both A Question of Power and The Women of Tijucopapo exemplify the interplay between local, global and national, and transnational dynamics, offering insights into the construction of postcolonial diasporic identities and their connections to transglocal points of entanglement with a particular focus on feminist diasporic studies.
- Subjects
QUESTION of Power, A (Book); WOMEN of Tijucopapo, The (Book); FELINTO, Marilene; HEAD, Bessie, 1937-1986; DIASPORA; POSTCOLONIAL literature
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 4, p43
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Literary Criticism