Lucinda Newns

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Homing the Metropole

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Homing the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have frequently been associated with essentialist understandings of nation and race, an uncritical investment in tropes of homelessness can prove equally hegemonic. By synthesising postcolonial and intersectional feminist theory, this work establishes the migrant domestic space as a central location of resistance, countering notions of the private sphere as static, uncreative and apolitical. Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas, it reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration, providing a valuable critique of the celebration of unfixed subject positions that has been a central tenet of postcolonial studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351390491
• Artikelnr.: 58487277

Autorenporträt

Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Queen Mary, at the University of London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Homing in on Migration
Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity
2. Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi
Emecheta's Early London Novels
3. Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy's
Small Island
Part II Islam at Home
4. "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5. Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela's
The Translator
Part III Precarious Domesticities
6. Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
7. Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr
Loverman
8. Conclusion: Homing the Metropole

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1. Introduction: Homing in on Migration


Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity


2. Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi Emecheta's Early London Novels



3. Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy's Small Island


Part II Islam at Home


4. "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali's Brick Lane



5. Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela's The Translator


Part III Precarious Domesticities


6. Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea



7. Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman



8. Conclusion: Homing the Metropole

Rezensionen

"In this politically sensitive and timely book, Lucinda Newns challenges critical orthodoxies in order to revise the correlation of domestic space with insularity, normativity, and stasis. By showing how migrant fiction evokes alternative practices of homemaking, her intersectional readings offer a multifaceted contribution to the study of belonging in postcolonial, feminist, and queer studies." David James, University of Birmingham

"In this age of homelessness and displacement, home is not automatically a safe space. Lucinda Newns shows that for migrants, LGBTQI people, women, and refugees, home is a process striated by violence and enforced uprooting. Her important new book updates postcolonial discussions of home for this complex and fraught twenty-first century era." Claire Chambers, University of York