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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valkeakari, Tuire, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Caribbean literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

American fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Black people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813072449

0813072441

9780813051963

0813051967

9780813052724

0813052726

OCLC:

983783774