{"product_id":"precarious-passages-9780813069463","title":"Precarious Passages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as ‘African American’, ‘black Canadian’, ‘black British’, or ‘postcolonial African Caribbean’, this book takes an integrative approach, arguing that fiction creates a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling and generative source for scholars and students of myriad fields.”—Studies in the Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Makes a compelling case for a rethinking of narrative moments including slavery, the Middle Passage, and colonization that have defined the fiction produced in a transatlantic geography. Provokes a reassessment of notions of Africa as an ur-home and figurations of nation-state. A must-read.\"\"--Maxine Lavon Montgomery, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Shows how literary texts perform a cultural mediation of diasporic memory.\"\"--Wendy W. Walters, author of \u003ci\u003eArchives of the Black Atlantic: Reading between Literature and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Moves productively between the civil-rights generation of African American novelists, to the cultural-nationalist generation of Caribbean writers from the decolonization era, to contemporary British, Canadian, and American writers.\"\"--Olakunle George, author of \u003ci\u003eRelocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405766762839,"sku":"9780813069463","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813069463.jpg?v=1730493540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/precarious-passages-9780813069463","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}