Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jansen, Bettina (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; British and Irish Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and H...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theories of Community
• 3. The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon
• 4. The Emergence of a Black British Community: Farrukh Dhondy
• 5. "A New Way of Being British": Kureishi's 'Ethnic' Short Stories
• 6. Human Commonalities: Kureishi's 'Postethnic' Short Stories
• 7. Scottish Singular Plurality: Jackie Kay
• 8. Scottish Community between Essence and (De-)Construction: Suhayl Saadi
• 9. Accidental Englishness: Zadie Smith
• 10. Tour du Monde: Hari Kunzru
• 11. The World as Singular Plural Composite: Suhayl Saadi
• 12. Conclusion. .