Short-story form and diversity management in ZZ Packer's "Drinking coffee elsewhere"

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dc.contributor.authorIbarrola Armendariz, Aitor
dc.date.accessioned2026-11-04T11:55:02Z
dc.date.available2026-11-04T11:55:02Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2026-11-04T11:55:02Z
dc.descriptionPonencia presentada en la 31st AEDEAN Conference, celebrada en A CoruƱa en 2007es
dc.description.abstractHistorically, ethnic minority writers have only rarely shown much concern with the intra-group diversity that one frequently finds in sociological surveys and statistics which classify results according to ethnic categories. ZZ Packer's collection of short stories "Drinking coffee elsewhere" (2003) presents us with a set of African-American characters who, despite sharing the surface difference of their skin color, display a much wider range of "otherness" as they have to struggle with the limitations that their age, appearance, religion or family background mark out for them. While it is true that most of Packer's protagonists -generally young girls- are outsiders who develop all sorts of coping strategies to deal with the pain that expectations and prejudices inflict on them, it is also apparent that their grievances originate from variegated causes. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that Packer succeeds in producing a work of fiction that transcends most of the paradigms so-far used to analyze characters in texts by black women -i.e. suspended/assimilated/ emergent woman or invisible/ feminist/ womanist heroine-. She manages to do so by having such a strong grip on reality that we, the readers, cannot help but sympathize with young individuals pushed by circumstances into making very difficult decisions.en
dc.identifier.citationIbarrola Armendariz, A. (2008). Short-story form and diversity management in ZZ Packerā€™s Ā«Drinking coffee elsewhereĀ». En M. J. Lorenzo Modia, J. M. Alonso GirĆ”ldez, M. Amenedo Costa, M. J. Cabarcos-Traseira, & B. Lasa Ɓlvarez (eds.), Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource].
dc.identifier.isbn9788497492782
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/6875
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversidade da CoruƱa, Servizo de PublicaciĆ³ns
dc.titleShort-story form and diversity management in ZZ Packer's "Drinking coffee elsewhere"en
dc.typeconference paper
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage756
oaire.citation.startPage745
oaire.citation.titleProceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource]
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