Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

Carol Bailey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2966-4 (ISBN)

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Theorizes the city as a generative, ‘semicircular’ social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analysed in this volume configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting.

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 simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.

CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce and Green Place (2022).

Introduction

1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down

2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW

3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street

4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings

5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	none
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	45 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-9788-2966-3 / 1978829663
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2966-4 / 9781978829664
Zustand	Neuware