Settling Down and Settling Up

Settling Down and Settling Up

The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing

Medovarski, Andrea Katherine

University of Toronto Press

04/2019

208

Dura

Inglês

9781442640375

15 a 20 dias

446

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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 Anymore": Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Conclusion: "Conditions of Possibility"

Notes
Works Cited
Index
second generation; children of immigrants; black diaspora; Black Canadian literature; Black British literature; critical multiculturalism; cultural studies; literary studies; literary criticism