TY - CHAP

T1 - The aesthetic of vulnerability un-heard female voices and the question of identity and recognition in the work of Ken Bugul and Fatou Diome

AU - Rainsborough, Marita

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Georg Olms Verlag AG, Hildesheim 2023. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023/6/21

Y1 - 2023/6/21

N2 - In their novels, Ken Bugni and Fatou Diome portray fragile female identities characterized by a cultural conflict between Africa and Europe, staging an aesthetic of vulnerability of un-heard voices, dealing with the topics of returning and remaining and the struggle for recognition. The power and strength associated with the erotic promise of the female body is under constant threat from self- and external exploitation. The un-heard female voices try to make themselves heard and to create identities of empowerment in literary writing, to express the demand to be perceived and to be healed, both in the autobiographical and the fictional dimension. The novels emphasize the ambivalence between the fascination with and rejection of the foreign culture. The protagonists experience the hybridity of the narrative identity as a painful wound that requires the experience of return to be healed.

AB - In their novels, Ken Bugni and Fatou Diome portray fragile female identities characterized by a cultural conflict between Africa and Europe, staging an aesthetic of vulnerability of un-heard voices, dealing with the topics of returning and remaining and the struggle for recognition. The power and strength associated with the erotic promise of the female body is under constant threat from self- and external exploitation. The un-heard female voices try to make themselves heard and to create identities of empowerment in literary writing, to express the demand to be perceived and to be healed, both in the autobiographical and the fictional dimension. The novels emphasize the ambivalence between the fascination with and rejection of the foreign culture. The protagonists experience the hybridity of the narrative identity as a painful wound that requires the experience of return to be healed.

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85200021203&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.5771/9783487423555-137

DO - 10.5771/9783487423555-137

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85200021203

SN - 9783487163512

T3 - Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte (Pointe)

SP - 137

EP - 152

BT - Women's Perspectives on (Post)Migration

A2 - Borst, Julia

A2 - Neu-Wendel, Stephanie

A2 - Tauchnitz, Juliane

PB - Georg Olms Verlag AG

ER -