...Chimalum Nwankwo Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 CHIMALUM NWANKWO AfricanLiteratureand the Woman TheImaBineRd ealityasa StrateBY of Dissidence Whenever transformation becomes necessary in human society, it must begin with some kind of alteration or fixing of an internal cartography...

...Jennifer D. Williams; Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 JENNIFER D. WILLIAMS AND lFEOMA KIDDOE NWANKWO Travelin'Women: BlackFeminist Migrations,Diasporas, and Cosmopolitanisms "Not only would I become a writer but a travelin' woman as well." -Paule Marshall...

...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Abstract Migration is a fundamental constitutive element of Caribbean life, culture, and identity, made so by colonialism, local and regional economic insecurity, and educational opportunities abroad. A plethora of scholars, filmmakers, poets, and novelists have indexed...

..." (192). Chimalum Nwankwo's examination of strategies of resistance and dissidence in African literature resurrects Ousmane Sembene's articulation of the pedagogical values of dissident and activist art. Dissidence is politi- INTRODUCTION 7 cal and pedagogical, Nwankwo asserts, and dissident writing...

... AfticanWomen'sDrama:ThePoliticsofFormandSubstancies forthcoming from Africa World Press. CHIMALUM NWANKWO is a renowned poet and Professor of English and World Literatures at North Carolina A&TState University in Greensboro. His dozens of articles, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in leading journals in literature and African cultural studies...

... "Travelin' Women: Black Feminist Migrations, Diasporas, and Cosmopolitanisms," with guest editors Jennifer Williams and Ifeoma Nwankwo. In their introduction to the section's essays, poems, and interview, they ask: "What does it mean for a Black woman writer to be a traveling woman? How does travel affect...

..., economic, and even many political themes transcend border" (6).This book puts Tubman on course with the new historical wave to fit African Americans into a larger conversation beyond the American national framework. For examples, see Brock, Kelley, and Sotiropoulos 2003; Nwankwo 2005; Marable and Agard...

..., "while metropolitan travel [read cosmopolitanism] is about a confrontation with an Other, travel writing is about the domestication of this encounter through the production of otherness" (Cesareo 2001, rn5). Recently, scholars such as Ifeoma Nwankwo (2005) and Carol Boyce Davies (2007) have offered more...