Kinship across the Black Atlantic : writing diasporic relations / Gigi Adair.

"This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adair, Gigi (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Series:Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 23.
Subjects:
Online Access:JSTOR Open Access

MARC

LEADER 00000czm a2200000 i 4500
005 20221104054910.0
007 cr mn|||||n|||
008 200211s2019 enk ob 001 0 eng d
010 |z  2019457860 
011 |a Z3950 Search: @or @or @or @attr 1=7 "9781789620375" @attr 1=7 "9781802077353" @attr 1=7 "9781789624540" @attr 1=7 "9781789629804" 
011 |a Z3950 Record: 1 of 16 
020 |a 1789620376  |q Internet 
020 |a 9781789620375  |q Internet 
020 |a 1802077359  |q Internet 
020 |a 9781802077353  |q Internet 
020 |a 1789624541  |q Internet 
020 |a 9781789624540  |q Internet 
020 |a 1789629802  |q Internet 
020 |a 9781789629804  |q Internet 
035 |a (EDS)EDS23384518 
040 |a YDX  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d YDX  |d BDX  |d UKMGB  |d OCLCF  |d CDX  |d YDXIT  |d CHVBK  |d GUA  |d OCLCO  |d VLB  |d XII  |d OBE  |d UIU  |d ORU  |d Z5A 
042 |a lccopycat 
050 0 0 |a PS153.N5  |b A27 2019 
050 4 |a PS153.B53  |b A27 2019 
082 0 4 |a 813.609896073  |2 23 
099 |a 813.609896073 ADA 
100 1 |a Adair, Gigi,  |e author.  |9 969562 
245 1 0 |a Kinship across the Black Atlantic :  |b writing diasporic relations /  |c Gigi Adair. 
264 1 |a Liverpool :  |b Liverpool University Press,  |c 2019. 
264 4 |c ©2019 
300 |a 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 1 |a Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;  |v 23 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Introduction. Diasporic kinship across the black Atlantic --  |t Part I. Rewriting anthropology --  |g 1.  |t Postcolonial sabotage and ethnographic recovery in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother --  |g 2.  |t Destabilizing structuralism in Pauline Melville's The Ventrilogquist's Tale --  |t Part II. Historiography and the afterlife of slavery --  |g 3.  |t 'As constricting as the corset they bind me in to keep me a lady': colonial historiography in Andrea Levy's The Long Song --  |g 4.  |t Shattering the flow of history: Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon --  |t Part III. Queer diasporic relationality --  |g 5.  |t Queer creolization in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco --  |g 6.  |t Writing self and kind: diasporic mourning in Jackie Kay's Trumpet --  |t Conclusion. Diasporic futures?. 
520 |a "This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century."--Back cover. 
650 0 |a American fiction  |x Black authors  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a American fiction  |x African American authors  |x History and criticism.  |9 746078 
650 0 |a African literature (English)  |x Black authors  |x History and criticism. 
776 1 8 |w (OCoLC)1089428044 
830 0 |a Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;  |v 23.  |9 985775 
856 4 0 |u https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvsn3nx5  |z JSTOR Open Access  |x TEMPORARY ERM URL 
942 |c EB  |n 0 
999 |c 1707127  |d 1707127 
Availability
Requests
Request this item Request this AUT item so you can pick it up when you're at the library.
Interlibrary Loan With Interlibrary Loan you can request the item from another library. It's a free service.