Overview
Provides a systematic study of the black British short story
Utilizes postcolonial theory and deconstructive philosophy
Contributes to the fields of postcolonial studies and genre studies
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Early Black British Short Story, c 1950–1980
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Hanif Kureishi and the Black British Short Story since the 1980s
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The Local Black British Short Story since the 1990s
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The Cosmopolitan Black British Short Story since the 1990s
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About this book
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. By combining 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.
Reviews
“Bettina Jansen draws our attention to the vital contribution made by Black British writers to the contemporary short story in the UK. Placing both well-known and undervalued texts within their political context she shows just how urgently we need to read them. Scrupulously researched, this book is bang up to date, and will remain relevant well into the future.” (Ailsa Cox, Professor of Short Fiction, Edge Hill University, UK)
“This remarkable volume maps the development and typology of the black British short story, with a focus on its articulation of new discourses on community. It combines a sophisticated theoretical framework with insightful readings of specific texts. Through its brilliant, accessible rendering of postcolonial and deconstructive theories of community, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of community and literature. Undoubtedly, a welcome contribution to a burgeoning field of study.” (Paula Martín-Salván, Associate Professor, University of Córdoba, Spain, and author of The Language of Ethics and Community in Graham Greene’s Fiction (Palgrave 2015))
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bettina Jansen is Research Assistant and Lecturer for English Literature at TU Dresden, Germany. She is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story
Authors: Bettina Jansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94860-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94859-1Published: 28 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06927-8Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94860-7Published: 16 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 327
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction