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The study of women and literature of the African diaspora necessarily entails some understanding of the dispersal of Africans to other locations of the world. Historians identify at least five primary migrations which created the African diaspora, including the largest forced migration, the sixteenth- to nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic slave trade and its triangular trade routes including the “Middle Passage” This trans-Atlantic forced migration resulted in the appearance of Africans in the Americas and in Europe, but also in various other locations around the world and their simultaneous recreation of sociocultural practices. Women have been central to these experiences and processes, both by their presence and the role they played in the development of new communities in the African diaspora.
Early representations of women in the African diaspora literature were limited to receive literary and social notions of “woman’s place” in man’s experience. Feminist critiques of...
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Davies, C.B. (2005). Women and Literature in the African Diaspora. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_38
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