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Settling down and settling up : the second generation in Black Canadian and Black British women's writing

Medovarski, Andrea, 1973- author

2019

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\"Comparing second generation children of immigrants in Black Canadian and Black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside (3z(Bin place(3y (Bin the nations of their birth. Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British Black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in Black women's writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: English literature Black authors History and criticism. / Canadian literature Black authors History and criticism. / English literature Women authors History and criticism. / Canadian literature Women authors History and criticism. / Identity (Psychology) in literature. / Postcolonialism in literature. / Children of immigrants Great Britain Intellectual life. / Children of immigrants Canada Intellectual life. / Canadian literature Black Canadian authors History and criticism
• ISBN: 9781442640375, 1442640375

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR120.B55 M43 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE