Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone

Description: Precarious Passages by Tuire Valkeakari 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Tuire Valkeakari is professor of English at Providence College and the author of Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952–1998. Review "Makes a compelling case for a rethinking of narrative moments including slavery, the Middle Passage, and colonization that have defined the fiction produced in a trans-Atlantic geography. A must-read." — Maxine Lavon Montgomery, author of The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance"Shows how literary texts perform a cultural mediation of diasporic memory." — Wendy Walters, author of Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading between Literature and History"Moves productively between the civil-rights generation of African-American novelists, to the cultural-nationalist generation of Caribbean writers from the decolonization era, to contemporary British, Canadian, and American writers." — Olakunle George, author of Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters Long Description "Makes a compelling case for a rethinking of narrative moments including slavery, the Middle Passage, and colonization that have defined the fiction produced in a transatlantic geography. Provokes a reassessment of notions of Africa as an ur-home and figurations of nation-state. A must-read."--Maxine Lavon Montgomery, author of The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance "Shows how literary texts perform a cultural mediation of diasporic memory."--Wendy w. Walters, author of Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading between Literature and History "Moves productively between the civil-rights generation of African American novelists, to the cultural-nationalist generation of Caribbean writers from the decolonization era, to contemporary British, Canadian, and American writers."--Olakunle George, author of Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply "African American," "black Canadian," "black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," this book takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustains a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world. 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, most notably the Middle Passage and enslavement. The lives of their characters are marked by migration and displacement. Their protagonists yearn to experience fulfilling human connection in a place they can call home. Portraying strategies of survival, adaptation, and resistance across the limitless varieties of life experiences in the diaspora, these novelists continually reimagine 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. Review Quote "A compelling and generative source for scholars and students of myriad fields."-- Studies in the Novel "The range of scholarshipthat this volume represents is truly impressive at every stage, and the criticalundertaking that it embodies serves as a useful and insightful summation of thefield."-- Review of English Studies "An insightful andilluminating read, with much to teach about the diasporic imagination in theaftermath of the Second World War."-- British Society for Literature andScience "A thoughtful, detailedreading of several contemporary Afro-diasporan Anglophone writers from Canada,England, the United States, and the Caribbean."-- New West Indian Guide Details ISBN0813062470 Author Tuire Valkeakari Pages 320 Publisher University Press of Florida Year 2017 ISBN-10 0813062470 ISBN-13 9780813062471 Format Hardcover Imprint University Press of Florida Subtitle The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction Place of Publication Florida Country of Publication United States Language English Media Book Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 813.009896073 Short Title Precarious Passages AU Release Date 2017-05-16 NZ Release Date 2017-05-16 UK Release Date 2017-05-16 Publication Date 2017-05-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2017-05-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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