Watery subjectivities: exploring female Somali diasporic experiences of the sea in Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother (2011) and “A Dhow Is Crossing the Sea” (2011)

Salaad, Ayan (2023) Watery subjectivities: exploring female Somali diasporic experiences of the sea in Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother (2011) and “A Dhow Is Crossing the Sea” (2011). In, Staniland, Emma (ed.) Women and Water in Global Fiction. (Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment) 1 ed. New York; London. Routledge, pp. 171-187. (doi:10.4324/9780429298837).

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Abstract

Contemporary global narratives of the Somali coast have been dominated by piracy stories which have tended to favour stories about men, nationalism and the nation state. This chapter complicates this dominant male narrative by exploring the way that Cristina Ali Farah uses the Indian Ocean and other bodies of water as a means to explore Somali coastal women’s diasporic experiences. Using wet ontologies and tidalectics, I explore the ways that a diaspora consciousness emerges from the materialities of the sea and other bodies of water for the female protagonists in both Little Mother and A Dhow is Crossing the Sea.

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