Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah , Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference , NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers . Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelong