LEADER 04324nam 22005412 450 001 9910552750003321 005 20221208201043.0 010 $a1-78962-980-2 010 $a1-78962-454-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000009934236 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002251930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6185293 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781789624540 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4ac61b44-19af-4671-9510-70059b3691ce 035 $a(PPN)266473377 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009934236 100 $a20200609d2019|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKinship across the Black Atlantic $ewriting diasporic relations /$fGigi Adair$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPostcolonialism across the disciplines ;$v23 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jul 2020). 311 $a1-78962-037-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a'Kinship Across the Black Atlantic provides an outstanding analysis of new models and modes of family-making proposed by a range of key contemporary diasporic writers. Drawing upon a wealth of critical discussions of kinship drawn from anthropology, philosophy, feminism, queer studies, and more besides, Gigi Adair pursues a series of dazzling, detailed readings of the literary re-imagining of family-making across the black Atlantic. Ever alert to the pitfalls as well as the possibilities of fictionalising kinship anew, her vibrant analysis valuably uncovers the progressive modes of kinship that diasporic writing daringly and urgently proposes, often by reaching beyond the colonial-crafted constraints of heteronormativity, genealogy and biocentric myths of 'blood'.' John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds 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 to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century. 410 0$aPostcolonialism across the disciplines ;$v23. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAtlantischer Raum$2gnd 607 $aUSA$2gnd 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.609896073 700 $aAdair$b Gigi$01214537 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552750003321 996 $aKinship across the Black Atlantic$92804423 997 $aUNINA