Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction

Homing the Metropole
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-30811-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newns, Lucinda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Homing in on Migration

Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity

- Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi Emecheta’s Early London Novels

- Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy’s Small Island

Part II Islam at Home

- "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

- Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela’s The Translator

Part III Precarious Domesticities

- Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea

- Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman

- Conclusion: Homing the Metropole

Über Autor(innen)

Lucinda Newns is a lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her work has previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and she is co-editor of New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches (2018).