Against! : rebellious daughters in Black immigrant fiction in the United States / Asha Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Asha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

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

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Daughters in literature.

Children of immigrants in literature.

Conflict of generations in literature.

African diaspora in literature.

Women, Black, in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 150 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Against : rebellious daughters in Black immigrant fiction in the United States

Rebellious daughters in Black immigrant fiction in the United States

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Against! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffers evaluates the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US as depicted through the recurring theme of rebellious Black immigrant daughters. Considering the work of Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Taiye Selasi, Jeffers untangles how rebellion is informed by race, gender, ethnicity, and migration status. Immigrant and second-generation writers mobilize often complicated familial relationships to comment on a variety of political, social, and psychic contexts. Jeffers argues that rather than categorizing Black migrants as either immediately fully integrated into an African American experience or seeing them as another category altogether that is unbound by race, Marshall, Danticat, Adichie, and Selasi identify the unstable position of Black migrants within the American racial landscape. By highlighting the diverse ways Black migrants and their children negotiate this position amid the dual demands of the respectability politics imposed on African Americans and the model-minority myth imposed on immigrants, Jeffers reveals the unsteady nature of US racial categories."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Against!

Rebelling in the in-between

Rebelling against repetition

Self-destructive rebellion

Rebelling against stereotypes and confinement

Conclusion: The future of immigrant Blackness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index.

ISBN:

9780814215791

0814215793

9780814259337

0814259332

OCLC:

1453070963