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Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole, reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration.
Sommario
- Introduction: Homing in on Migration
Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity
- Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi Emecheta’s Early London Novels
- Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
Part II Islam at Home
- "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
- Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela’s The Translator
Part III Precarious Domesticities
- Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
- Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman
- Conclusion: Homing the Metropole
Info autore
Lucinda Newns is a lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her work has previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and she is co-editor of New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches (2018).
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Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole, reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration.
Testo aggiuntivo
"In this politically sensitive and timely book, Lucinda Newns challenges critical orthodoxies in order to revise the correlation of domestic space with insularity, normativity, and stasis. By showing how migrant fiction evokes alternative practices of homemaking, her intersectional readings offer a multifaceted contribution to the study of belonging in postcolonial, feminist, and queer studies." David James, University of Birmingham
"In thisage of homelessness and displacement, home is not automatically a safe space. Lucinda Newns shows that for migrants, LGBTQI people, women, and refugees, home is a process striated by violence and enforced uprooting. Her important new book updates postcolonial discussions of home for this complex and fraught twenty-first century era." Claire Chambers, University of York
