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African American Fiction
African Diaspora
Anglophone fiction
Author_Tuire Valkeakari
black Anglophone
black British
black Canadian
black diaspora
black identity
Caryl Phillips
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Colonization
contemporary black fiction
contemporary black novels
contemporary novelists
Displacement
enslavement
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identity
Lawrence Hill
Middle Passage
Migration
Slavery
Toni Morrison
Transatlantic
Tuire Valkeakari
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069463
- Weight: 229g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
