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...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Diasporic kinship across the black Atlantic
- Part I. Rewriting anthropology
- 1. Postcolonial sabotage and ethnographic recovery in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
- 2. Destabilizing structuralism in Pauline Melville's The Ventrilogquist's Tale
- Part II. Historiography and the afterlife of slavery
- 3. 'As constricting as the corset they bind me in to keep me a lady': colonial historiography in Andrea Levy's The Long Song
- 4. Shattering the flow of history: Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon
- Part III. Queer diasporic relationality
- 5. Queer creolization in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco
- 6. Writing self and kind: diasporic mourning in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
- Conclusion. Diasporic futures?.