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Kinship Across the Black Atlantic - Writing Diasporic Relations (Paperback)
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Kinship Across the Black Atlantic - Writing Diasporic Relations (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 23
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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 demonstrate the
importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative
forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the
meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an
analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to
understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first
century.
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