Transglocal Fiction: Diasporic Poetics of Resistance in Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1977) and Marilene Felinto's As Mulheres de Tijucopapo (1981)

The article reveals how both A Question of Power and The Women of Tijucopapo exemplify the interplay between local, global and national, and transnational dynamics, offering insights into the construction ofpostcolonial diasporic identities and their connections to transglocal points of entanglement with a particular focus on feminist diasporic studies. While my analysis of diasp orization in A Question of Power and The Women of Tijucopapo stems from a comparative approach to studying their single diasporas, it departs from Butler's methodology as her dimensions are centered on homelands, hostlands, and the diaspora itself. Published in 1974, A Question of Power follows Elizabeth's physical and mental journey, leading her to a permanent condition of unstable statelessness. According to the 'Population Registration Act of 1950,' "a Coloured person means a person who is not white or a native" (Nixon 1950,108). [...]Elizabeth's sense of national belonging is based on a segregationist compartmentalization disguised as filial ties between citizens and the mother country.