British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity

• Main Author: Rahbek, Ulla (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; British literature.; Literature-Philosophy.; Contemporary Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Literary Theory.

This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British multiculturalism, superdiversity and conviviality, Ulla Rahbek studies a broad range of texts by writers from across the majority-minority divide. The text...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Old and New Diversity
• Chapter 2: Multicultural Poetry - On Filigrees, Grafting and Mirrors
• Chapter 3: The Multicultural Memoir - A Politics of Recognition for the Individual
• Chapter 4: The Multicultural Novel, Part 1 - Britain Reimagined
• Chapter 5: The Multicultural Novel, Part 2 - Bordered Britain
• Chapter 6: The Multicultural Short Story and Intercultural Conversation
• Chapter 7: Conclusion - The Public Good of (British) Multicultural Literature.