UID:
almahu_9949701958402882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004464261
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9789004464254
Series Statement:
Youth in a Globalizing World ; 15
Content:
The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature-and of the short story genre, in particular-to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.
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Copyright /
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Foreword /
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Acknowledgements /
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Notes on Contributors /
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Introduction Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction /
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Part 1 Youth, Home and Belonging /
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Chapter 1 Evil Children of the DiasporaAndrea Levy's "Deborah" /
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Chapter 2 "the world was a strange place to be caught living in" /
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Chapter 3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando's Homesick /
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Part 2 Youth, Nation and Narration /
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Chapter 4 Growing Up Multiply /
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Chapter 5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin's Stories for Young Readers /
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Chapter 6 "A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You" /
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Part 3 Youth, Dislocation and Transformation /
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Chapter 7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories /
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Chapter 8 From "Partial Presence" to "Disruptive Impurity" /
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Chapter 9 "I'm the Only One" /
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Part 4 Youth, Religion and Global Politics /
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Chapter 10 The Virgin's Consent /
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Chapter 11 Reading for Resilience /
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Chapter 12 "Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)" /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004464254
Language:
English
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