Kinship across the Black Atlantic : : writing diasporic relations / / Gigi Adair.
<i>'Kinship Across the Black Atlantic</i> provides an outstanding analysis of new models and modes of family-making proposed by a range of key contemporary diasporic writers. Drawing upon a wealth of critical discussions of kinship drawn from anthropology, philosophy, feminism, quee...
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