Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization / / Carol Bailey.
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again” The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down
- 2 “Putting the Best Outside” A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW
- 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subject in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street
- 4 “Writing the Sprawling City” The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings
- 5 A Door Ajar Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author