Описание: A dissemination of the figure of the `Afropolitan` from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.
Автор: Roy, Bidhan Chandra Название: Passage to globalism ISBN: 1433120267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433120268 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 13543.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. This book asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalization?
Описание: This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space.
Автор: Bailey, Carol Название: Writing the black diasporic city in the age of globalization ISBN: 1978829663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978829664 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4132.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Caroline A. Brown and Johanna X. K. Garvey Название: Madness in black women`s diasporic fictions. ISBN: 3319581260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319581262 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the "madwoman" as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach.
The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.
Описание: Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply ""African American,"" ""black Canadian,"" ""black British,"" or ""postcolonial African Caribbean,"" this book takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustains a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world.Tuire Valkeakari analyzes the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. She shows how their novels connect with each other and with defining moments in the transatlantic experience, most notably the Middle Passage and enslavement. The lives of their characters are marked by migration and displacement. Their protagonists yearn to experience fulfilling human connection in a place they can call home. Portraying strategies of survival, adaptation, and resistance across the limitless varieties of life experiences in the diaspora, these novelists continually reimagine what it means to share a black diasporic identity.
Описание: 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.
Описание: This book examines the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity. The author makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures in the shaping and constitution of the modern world.
Автор: Knudsen, Eva Rask Rahbek, Ulla Название: In search of the afropolitan ISBN: 1783483539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783483532 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 18860.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A dissemination of the figure of the `Afropolitan` from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.
Автор: Caroline A. Brown; Johanna X. K. Garvey Название: Madness in Black Women`s Diasporic Fictions ISBN: 3319863282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319863283 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Chapter 1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics - Caroline A. Brown
Part I: Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation
Chapter 2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe - Nancy Caronia
Chapter 3. Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-text in Marlene NourbeSe Philip's Experimental Zong! - Richard Douglass-Chin
Chapter 4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Victoria Papa
Part II: The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony
Chapter 5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women's Fiction - Johanna X. K. Garvey
Chapter 6.Dark Swoops: Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun - Seretha D. Williams
Chapter 7. "We Know People By Their Stories" Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! - Raquel D. Kennon
Part III: Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm
Chapter 8. Sharazade's Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Majda R. Atieh
Chapter 9. Magic, Madness and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring - Caroline A. Brown
Chapter 10. "Recordless Company" Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl - E. Kim Stone
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures - Johanna X. K. Garvey
This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is,? a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.
Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.
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