Precarious passages : the diasporic imagination in contemporary Black Anglophone fiction / / Tuire Valkeakari

• Autore: Valkeakari Tuire
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, [Florida] : , : University Press of Florida, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9/896041
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Black authors - History and criticism; Caribbean literature - Black authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: passages to (be)longing -- An African American journey to black diasporic consciousness: Charles Johnson's middle passage -- Early black Atlantic crossing: Lawrence Hill's the book of negroes -- War, trauma, displacement, diaspora: Toni Morrison's and Caryl Phillips's African American soldiers -- Journeys to the heart of empire after World War II: George Lamming's, Caryl Phillips's, and Andrea Levy's Caribbean migrants -- Roots, routes, and returns: Caryl Phillips's, Cecil Foster's, and Edwidge Danticat's Caribbean returnees.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing from Caribbean, U.S., Canadian, and British novels, Tuire Valkeakari examines how fiction written in English contributes to and comments upon the continuing transnational constructions of black diasporic identity. Valkeakari argues for the critical role that secular culture in general and fiction in particular play in creating symbolic connections to sustain the idea of a black diasporic community.
• Titolo autorizzato: Precarious passages
• ISBN: 0-8130-7244-1; 0-8130-5196-7; 0-8130-5272-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817687703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II