Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds
to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by
reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of
homemaking and away from a celebratory and aestheticized reading of
displacement. Centering on Britain as the location of arrival, its
readings of canonical and underexplored works of diasporic fiction
emanating from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean foreground the
significance of discourses of domesticity in supporting as well as
resisting colonialism, racism and xenophobia. Applying an
intersectional feminist approach, this book challenges the tendency
to view the private sphere as a static, apolitical and uncreative
space. Rather, Newns argues, we should regard the domestic home as
a key site for contesting the terms of belonging within larger
spaces and collectivities, such as the city and the nation.
Ultimately, by demonstrating the material importance of homely
spaces for non-privileged migrants like women, refugees and LGBTQ+
people, Domestic Intersections problematizes the critical suspicion
towards home and placement in feminist, postcolonial and queer
theory.
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