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African intimacy
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Author_Bimbola Akinbola
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culture transference
decolonization
diasporic community
diasporic homemaking
digital disbelongings
disbelonging
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erotic agency
girlhood
impossibility
interracial longing
national belonging
Nigeria
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Nnedi Okorafor
nostalgia
play
public performance
queer kinship
queerness
ruby onyinyechi amanze
tethering
Unruly return
video art
worldbuilding
worldmaking
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Product details
- ISBN 9781478029199
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Transatlantic Disbelonging, Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies, allegiances, and identities. Drawing on the work of contemporary visual and performance artists, experimental filmmakers, and writers - including Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Zina Saro-Wiwa, ruby onyinyechi amanze, and Nnedi Okorafor - Akinbola articulates how these artists use their experiences as cultural outsiders to redefine home and national belonging on their own terms. Taking a capacious interdisciplinary approach, she explores how these women employ anti-respectability, taboo, the erotic, and play to challenge oppressive colonial legacies and expectations pertaining to gender and morality. For the artists in this book, their artmaking is a form of homemaking that embraces ambivalence and reinvents alienation as possibility. Theorizing these practices as acts of “disbelonging,” Akinbola radically reimagines diasporic identity formation, illustrating how artists use creative practices to enact and embody belonging and community in expansive ways.
Bimbola Akinbola is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
