Settling Down and Settling Up
The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing
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2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4037-5 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
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This book is a comparative examination of the second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing that dialogues with black diaspora and postcolonial theory, feminist and social geography, and cultural studies.
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 theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth.
Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women’s writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.
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 theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth.
Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women’s writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.
Andrea Katherine Medovarski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.
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 Anymore”: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Conclusion: “Conditions of Possibility”
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 446 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4426-4037-5 / 1442640375 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4426-4037-5 / 9781442640375 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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