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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Medovarski, Andrea, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Subjects:
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Children of immigrants > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Children of immigrants > Canada > Intellectual life.
Canadian literature > Black Canadian authors > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Enfants d'immigrants > Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle.
Enfants d'immigrants > Canada > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Canadian literature > Black authors
Canadian literature > Women authors
Children of immigrants > Intellectual life
English literature > Black authors
English literature > Women authors
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Canada
Great Britain
Black British literature.
Black Canadian literature.
black diaspora.
children of immigrants.
critical multiculturalism.
cultural studies.
literary criticism.
literary studies.
second generation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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