Settling Down and Settling Up : The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing /

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"Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Medovarski, Andrea, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postcolonialism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
English literature > Women authors.
English literature > Black authors.
Children of immigrants > Intellectual life.
Canadian literature > Women authors.
Canadian literature > Black authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Enfants d'immigrants > Canada > Vie intellectuelle.
Enfants d'immigrants > Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Canadian literature > Black Canadian authors > History and criticism.
Children of immigrants > Canada > Intellectual life.
Children of immigrants > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Canada.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "Settling Down and Settling Up": Conceptualizing the Second Generation; 1 "A Kind of New Vocabulary": Dionne Brand's (Re)Mappings in What We All Long For; 2 "Belonging Is What You Give Yourself": Tessa McWatt's Out of My Skin; 3 "I Knew This Was England": Myths of "Back Home" in Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon; 4 "The Abuses of Settlement": Esi Edugyan's The Second Life of Samuel Tyne; 5 "When Roots Won't Matter Any More": Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Conclusion. "Conditions of Possibility"; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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