Settling Down and Settling Up : The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing

Medovarski, Andrea Katherine

University of Toronto Press（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442640375
• DDC分類 820.935309051

Full Description

Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth.

Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women's writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. "Settling Down and Settling Up": Conceptualizing the Second Generation

1. "A Kind of New Vocabulary": Dionne Brand's (Re)Mappings in What We All Long For
2. "Belonging Is What You Give Yourself": Tessa McWatt's Out of My Skin
3. "I Knew This Was England": Myths of "Back Home" in Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon
4. "The Abuses of Settlement": Esi Edugyan's The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
5. "When Roots Won't Matter Anymore": Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Conclusion: "Conditions of Possibility"

Notes
Works Cited
Index