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'Shuttles in the Rocking Loom': Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction (Migrations and Identities)
Jennifer Terry
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Description for 'Shuttles in the Rocking Loom': Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction (Migrations and Identities)
Hardcover. This important new work explores the symbolic geographies found within modern black fiction and identifies a significant set of relations between these geographies and communal affiliations, identity politics, and understandings of a diasporic past. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
‘Shuttles in the Rocking Loom’: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction explores the symbolic geographies found within modern black fiction and identifies a significant set of relations between these geographies and communal affiliations, identity politics, and understandings of a diasporic past. Employing a pliant sense of the term ‘mapping’, it offers analysis of diverse sites, landscapes, journeys, and orientations that address diasporan historical experience and often expose oppressive spatial orders or revise colonial representations. A comparative approach encompasses Anglo- and Francophone novels emergent from North America, the Caribbean, and Europe and spanning the twentieth century. ... Read more
‘Shuttles in the Rocking Loom’: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction explores the symbolic geographies found within modern black fiction and identifies a significant set of relations between these geographies and communal affiliations, identity politics, and understandings of a diasporic past. Employing a pliant sense of the term ‘mapping’, it offers analysis of diverse sites, landscapes, journeys, and orientations that address diasporan historical experience and often expose oppressive spatial orders or revise colonial representations. A comparative approach encompasses Anglo- and Francophone novels emergent from North America, the Caribbean, and Europe and spanning the twentieth century. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
Migrations and Identities
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319549
SKU
V9781846319549
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About Jennifer Terry
Dr Jennifer Terry is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in English at Durham University, UK with particular interests in literature and culture of the black diaspora. Her research is situated at the intersections of American hemispheric, US and postcolonial studies. Previous publications have focused on the work of Toni Morrison and other African American writers. Her monograph 'Shuttles in the ... Read more
Reviews for 'Shuttles in the Rocking Loom': Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction (Migrations and Identities)
'A significant contribution to both black diaspora and postcolonial studies ... the magnificent scope of each chapter offers readers detailed readings, contextualization and careful analysis.' Journal of American Studies Terry’s study is effectively organized, clearly signposting each theme throughout....of interest to scholars of Caribbean literature. Melanie A. Murray, Journal of Postcolonial Writing What Terry shows throughout this book is ... Read more