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Kinship Across the Black Atlantic: Writing Diasporic Relations (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP) by Gigi Adair; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they dem

Who reads Kinship Across the Black Atlantic: Writing Diasporic Relations (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)?

Author

Gigi Adair;

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789620375

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction