Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story 1st edition by Bettina Jansen 3319948598 9783319948591

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ISBN 10:3319948598
ISBN 13:9783319948591
Author: Bettina Jansen

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. Bycombining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Theories of Community

Part I. The Early Black British Short Story, c 1950–1980

3. The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon

4. The Emergence of a Black British Community: Farrukh Dhondy

Part II. Hanif Kureishi and the Black British Short Story since the 1980s

5. “A New Way of Being British”: Kureishi’s ‘Ethnic’ Short Stories

6. Human Commonalities: Kureishi’s ‘Postethnic’ Short Stories

Part III. The Local Black British Short Story since the 1990s

7. Scottish Singular Plurality: Jackie Kay

8. Scottish Community between Essence and (De-)Construction: Suhayl Saadi

9. Accidental Englishness: Zadie Smith

Part IV. The Cosmopolitan Black British Short Story since the 1990s

10. Tour du Monde: Hari Kunzru

11. The World as Singular Plural Composite: Suhayl Saadi

12. Conclusion

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