Precarious Passages

The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction

Tuire Valkeakari (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2017
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9780813062471 (ISBN)

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Analyses the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. Tuire Valkeakari shows how their novels connect with each other and with defining moments in the transatlantic experience marked by migration and displacement from home, continually reimagining what it means to share a black diasporic identity.

In Precarious Passages, Tuire Valkeakari analyzes the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. She shows how their novels connect with each other and with defining moments in the transatlantic experience marked by migration and displacement from home, continually reimagining what it means to share a black diasporic identity.

Tuire Valkeakari is professor of English at Providence College and the author of Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952–1998.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	655 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780813062471 / 9780813062471
Zustand	Neuware