現代イギリス小説におけるポストコロニアル青少年 Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction (Youth in a Globalizing World)

Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura María (EDT)/ Sacido-Romero, Jorge (EDT)/ Pereira-Ares, Noemí (EDT)

Brill（2023/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004524606
• DDC分類 823.92099283

Full Description

The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come.

Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.

Contents

Foreword

  Susanne Reichl

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Postcolonial Youth In Contemporary British Fiction

  Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Noemí Pereira-Ares

PART 1

Youth, Home and Belonging

1 Evil Children of the Diaspora: Andrea Levy's "Deborah"

  Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez

2 "the world was a strange place to be caught living in"

 Aspects of Liminality in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

  Gérald Préher

3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando's Homesick

  Carmen Lara-Rallo

PART 2

Youth, Nation and Narration

4 Growing Up Multiply

 British Women Write the Ampersand Experience

  Isabel Carrera-Suárez and Carla Rodríguez-González

5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin's Stories for Young Readers

  Laura Torres-Zúñiga

6 "A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You"

 The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawa's Dynamite

  Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas

PART 3

Youth, Dislocation and Transformation

7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories

  Jorge Sacido-Romero

8 From "Partial Presence" to "Disruptive Impurity"

 The Diasporic Adolescent in Leila Aboulela's Short Fiction

  Karima Thomas

9 "I'm the Only One"

 Transgressing Notions of Postcolonial Adolescence in the Contemporary Black British Short Story

  Bettina Jansen

PART 4

Youth, Religion and Global Politics

10 The Virgin's Consent

 British Muslim Identity, Cultural Heritage and Gender in Young Adult Fiction

  Claire Chambers and Indrani Karmakar

11 Reading for Resilience

 Postcolonial Aesthetics in the Post-9/11 British Novel for the Young

  Blanka Grzegorczyk

12 "Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)"

 From Islamophobia to Brexit in A Change Is Gonna Come

  Noemí Pereira-Ares

Index