In Between Worlds

Memory, Belonging And Quest For The Self In Contemporary Black British Women’s Autofiction

Ayda Önder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-91585-1 (ISBN)

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This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity. It presents how the hybridity and in-betweenness of these mixed literary novelties mirror the multi-ethnic feeling of being caught between different cultural worlds, and how their ambivalence within literary categorisation provides spaces of inclusion for individuals whose multiple ethnicities transcend the rigid borders of pre-existing racial, national, ethnic and cultural classifications. Despite claiming to focus on authors labelled under “Black British Women”, the book shows the ineffectiveness of homogenising categories, yielding implications for the reconsideration of the hegemonic divisions between ‘Europeanness’ and ‘Africanness’.

Preface – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Chapter 1 Development of Autofiction as an In- between Genre – Chapter 2 Theoretical Contexts – Chapter 3 Multiethnicity as an In- between Cultural Position – Chapter 4 Charlotte Williams’s Sugar and Slate (2002) – Chapter 5 Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road (2010) – Chapter 6 Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara (1997/ 2009) – Conclusion – References

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2025
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	282 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Autoethnography • autofiction • autotheory • Ayda • Ayda Önder • Bahsi • belonging • Black • British • Contemporary • Esra • Hybridity • In Between Worlds • in Contemporary Black British Women’s Autofiction • Memory • Memory, Belonging and Quest for the Self • Multiethnicity • Önder • Quest • women’s • Worlds
ISBN-10	3-631-91585-3 / 3631915853
ISBN-13	978-3-631-91585-1 / 9783631915851
Zustand	Neuware