Precarious passages : the diasporic imagination in contemporary Black Anglophone fiction /
Drawing from Caribbean, U.S., Canadian and British novels, Tuire Valkeakari examines how fiction written in English contributes to and comments upon the continuing transnational constructions of black diasporic identity. Valkeakari argues for the critical role that secular culture in general and fic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Drawing from Caribbean, U.S., Canadian and British novels, Tuire Valkeakari examines how fiction written in English contributes to and comments upon the continuing transnational constructions of black diasporic identity. Valkeakari argues for the critical role that secular culture in general and fiction in particular play in creating symbolic connections to sustain the idea of a black diasporic community. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 332 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813062471 0813062470 |