Title Settling down and settling up : the second generation in black Canadian and black British women's writing / Andrea Katherine Medovarski

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary "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 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."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Black British literature Black Canadian literature black diaspora children of immigrants critical multiculturalism cultural studies literary criticism literary studies second generation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 9, 2019) Subject 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 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 Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442685338 1442685336

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