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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story
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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story [electronic resource] / by Bettina Jansen.
ISBN
9783319948607
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (VIII, 327 p.)
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Summary
Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2018
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Theories of Community
3. The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon
4. The Emergence of a Black British Community: Farrukh Dhondy
5. “A New Way of Being British”: Kureishi’s ‘Ethnic’ Short Stories
6. Human Commonalities: Kureishi’s ‘Postethnic’ Short Stories
7. Scottish Singular Plurality: Jackie Kay
8. Scottish Community between Essence and (De-)Construction: Suhayl Saadi
9. Accidental Englishness: Zadie Smith
10. Tour du Monde: Hari Kunzru
11. The World as Singular Plural Composite: Suhayl Saadi
12. Conclusion.
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