Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367668082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Sara Upstone

Opis

This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cu

Spis treści

Contents

　

Introduction: Utopian Realism and Writing Beyond Race

Chapter 1: Utopian Histories: Retroactive Possibilities

Chapter 2: Utopian Destinies: Anti-biological Textualities

Chapter 3: Utopian Ecologies: Post-human, Post-racial

Chapter 4: Utopian Bodies: Some Kind of Blackness

Chapter 5: Utopian Difference: Making Love

Chapter 6: Utopian Failures: Pitfalls of the Post

Chapter 7: Utopian Realities: Practical Utopias

Works Cited

O autorze

Sara Upstone is Principal Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University, UK.