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Author:   Carol Bailey
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.045kg
ISBN:  

9781978829664

ISBN 10:   1978829663
Pages:   195
Publication Date:   16 December 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down 2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street 4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings 5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book's meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts--a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto--is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood. --Curdella Forbes author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender

Author Information

CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce and Green Place (2022). 

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