Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story

AvBettina Jansen

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:327
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030069278

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Bettina Jansen is Research Assistant and Lecturer for English Literature at TU Dresden, Germany. She is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Theories of Community.- 3. The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon.- 4. The Emergence of a Black British Community: Farrukh Dhondy.- 5. “A New Way of Being British”: Kureishi’s ‘Ethnic’ Short Stories.- 6. Human Commonalities: Kureishi’s ‘Postethnic’ Short Stories.- 7. Scottish Singular Plurality: Jackie Kay.- 8. Scottish Community between Essence and (De-)Construction: Suhayl Saadi.- 9. Accidental Englishness: Zadie Smith.- 10. Tour du Monde: Hari Kunzru.- 11. The World as Singular Plural Composite: Suhayl Saadi.- 12. Conclusion.