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Afroeurope@ns

Cultures and Identities

Edited By: Marta Sofía López

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This pioneering collection of essays establishes a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the European Union, analyzing diasporic communities and cultural productions across Europe with particular attention to women writers.

The essays in this groundbreaking collection constitute a pioneering attempt at establishing a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the…

The essays in this groundbreaking collection constitute a pioneering attempt at establishing a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the context of the European Union. Drawing from a wide variety of critical perspectives and methodologies, from Post-colonial or Diaspora Studies to Sociology or Ethnography, contributors to the volume analyze black diasporic communities and their cultural productions in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, paying particular attention to women afrosporic writers.

Marta Sofía López teaches Postcolonial Literatures, Contemporary British Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of León, Spain. She has published widely on these fields, and lectured in many Universities in and out of the country. She leads the international research team “Afroeurope@ns: Black Identities and Cultures in Europe,” and directs the e-journal AFROEUROPE. Journal of Afroeuropean Studies. She is considered one of the leading experts on Anglophone African Literatures in Spain