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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.
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.
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora
studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual
culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a
variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical
paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this
volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights
from these different areas of cultural analysis, drawn together to
probe diverse manifestations of diaspora while pointing out new
directions of critique. Moving between representations of real and
imaginary, violent and utopian, past, present and future diasporas,
contributors demonstrate the ways in which authors, performers and
artists are establishing new modes of representing and imagining
diaspora in an increasingly globalised age. Contributions are
organised into sections on performance, speculative fiction, city
spaces, affective or violent diasporas, and silence and voice.
Bringing together these wide-ranging histories, contexts and media
allows for dialogue across vastly divergent experiences and
representations of diaspora, and opens up a theoretical debate on
the changing nature of this field of study.
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora
studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual
culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a
variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical
paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this
volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights
from these different areas of cultural analysis, drawn together to
probe diverse manifestations of diaspora while pointing out new
directions of critique. Moving between representations of real and
imaginary, violent and utopian, past, present and future diasporas,
contributors demonstrate the ways in which authors, performers and
artists are establishing new modes of representing and imagining
diaspora in an increasingly globalised age. Contributions are
organised into sections on performance, speculative fiction, city
spaces, affective or violent diasporas, and silence and voice.
Bringing together these wide-ranging histories, contexts and media
allows for dialogue across vastly divergent experiences and
representations of diaspora, and opens up a theoretical debate on
the changing nature of this field of study.
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