Lucinda Newns

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction

Homing the Metropole

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Produktbeschreibung

Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole, reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781032239101
• ISBN-10: 1032239107
• Artikelnr.: 62951760

Autorenporträt

Lucinda Newns is a lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her work has previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and she is co-editor of New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Homing in on Migration
Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity
2. Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi
Emecheta's Early London Novels
3. Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy's
Small Island
Part II Islam at Home
4. "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5. Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela's
The Translator
Part III Precarious Domesticities
6. Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
7. Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr
Loverman
8. Conclusion: Homing the Metropole