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Dialogues Across Diasporas

Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation

Dialogues Across Diasporas( )
Editor: Rohrleitner, Marion
Ryan, Sarah E.
Contribution by: Abarca, Meredith E.
Barraza, Gabriela Durán
Chacón, Sasha Pimentel
Chancy, Myriam J. A.
Chávez, Karma R.
Chew, Selfa
Christiansë, Yvette
Coly, Ayo Abiétou
Cruz, Angie
Doyle, Kerry
Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha
Lara, Ana-Maurine
McComb, Veronica Savory
Murta, Milena Simões
Popoola, Olumide
Rosario, Nelly
Staudt, Kathleen
Series title:Critical Africiana Studies
ISBN:978-0-7391-7804-1
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $168.95
Book Description:

Dialogues across Diasporasmakes an important contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on the intimate historical, political, and literary connections between two of the largest diasporic groups in the Americas and beyond - members of the African/a and Latina/o diasporas. This collection not only serves as a useful required text for Diaspora Studies courses, it offers a model for taking discussions of diasporic identities, community politics, and cultural memory...
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Nelly Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic & raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a Bachelor's in engineering from MIT & an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She has received numerous awards including a 1999 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fellowship, The Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship for 1999-2000, two National Arts Club Writing Fellowships, the 1997 Huston/Wright Award in Fiction & most recently she has been chosen as a "Writer on the Verge" by the Village Voice Literary Supplement for 2001. Rosario is published in the anthology Becoming American (Hyperion, 2000).

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