Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction /
Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction /
edited by Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Noemí Pereira-Ares.
- 1 online resource.
- Youth in a Globalizing World ; 15 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316 .
- Youth in a Globalizing World ; 15. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Copyright / Foreword / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Introduction Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction / Part 1 Youth, Home and Belonging / Chapter 1 Evil Children of the DiasporaAndrea Levy's "Deborah" / Chapter 2 "the world was a strange place to be caught living in" / Chapter 3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando's Homesick / Part 2 Youth, Nation and Narration / Chapter 4 Growing Up Multiply / Chapter 5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin's Stories for Young Readers / Chapter 6 "A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You" / Part 3 Youth, Dislocation and Transformation / Chapter 7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories / Chapter 8 From "Partial Presence" to "Disruptive Impurity" / Chapter 9 "I'm the Only One" / Part 4 Youth, Religion and Global Politics / Chapter 10 The Virgin's Consent / Chapter 11 Reading for Resilience / Chapter 12 "Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)" / Index / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Susanne Reichl -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez -- Gérald Préher -- Carmen Lara-Rallo -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Isabel Carrera-Suárez and Carla Rodríguez-González -- Laura Torres-Zúñiga -- Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Jorge Sacido-Romero -- Karima Thomas -- Bettina Jansen -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Claire Chambers and Indrani Karmakar -- Blanka Grzegorczyk -- Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares.
The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature-and of the short story genre, in particular-to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.
9789004464261 9789004464254
10.1163/9789004464261 DOI
2021015891
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Youth in literature.
PR890.Y69 PR890.Y69 / P67 2021
823/.9209
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Copyright / Foreword / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Introduction Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction / Part 1 Youth, Home and Belonging / Chapter 1 Evil Children of the DiasporaAndrea Levy's "Deborah" / Chapter 2 "the world was a strange place to be caught living in" / Chapter 3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando's Homesick / Part 2 Youth, Nation and Narration / Chapter 4 Growing Up Multiply / Chapter 5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin's Stories for Young Readers / Chapter 6 "A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You" / Part 3 Youth, Dislocation and Transformation / Chapter 7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories / Chapter 8 From "Partial Presence" to "Disruptive Impurity" / Chapter 9 "I'm the Only One" / Part 4 Youth, Religion and Global Politics / Chapter 10 The Virgin's Consent / Chapter 11 Reading for Resilience / Chapter 12 "Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)" / Index / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Susanne Reichl -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez -- Gérald Préher -- Carmen Lara-Rallo -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Isabel Carrera-Suárez and Carla Rodríguez-González -- Laura Torres-Zúñiga -- Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Jorge Sacido-Romero -- Karima Thomas -- Bettina Jansen -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Claire Chambers and Indrani Karmakar -- Blanka Grzegorczyk -- Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares.
The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature-and of the short story genre, in particular-to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.
9789004464261 9789004464254
10.1163/9789004464261 DOI
2021015891
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Youth in literature.
PR890.Y69 PR890.Y69 / P67 2021
823/.9209