Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization /

"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, "semicircular" social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bailey, Carol (Associate professor of English) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Globalization.
City and town life.
African diaspora.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
Urban Black people > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Natty Dread Rise Again": The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down
  • "Putting the Best Outside": A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW
  • The Transnational Semicircle and the "Mobile" Female Subject in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street
  • "Writing the Sprawling City": The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster's Sleep On, Beloved.

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