Carol Bailey

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theorizes the city as a generative, â semicircularâ social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analysed in this volume configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829664
• ISBN-10: 1978829663
• Artikelnr.: 63735153

Autorenporträt

CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai's A Fierce and Green Place (2022). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 "Natty Dread Rise Again": The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora
in Man Gone Down
2 "Putting the Best Outside": A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the
Midwife and NW
3 The Transnational Semicircle and the "Mobile" Female Subjectin Amma
Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street
4 "Writing the Sprawling City": The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief
History of Seven Killings
5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster's Sleep On,
Beloved
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index