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Title
British multicultural literature and superdiversity / Ulla Rahbek.
ISBN
3030221253 (electronic book)
9783030221256 (electronic book)
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
PR478.N37 R34 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/35842
Summary
This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British multiculturalism, superdiversity and conviviality, Ulla Rahbek studies a broad range of texts by writers from across the majority-minority divide. The text focuses on figurative registers and metaphorical richness in multicultural poetry and investigates the interlocked issue of recognition, representation and identity in memoirs. Rahbek analyses how twenty-first-century British multicultural novels both envision and reimagine an inclusive nation and thematise the detrimental effects of individual exclusion on characters pursuits of the good life. She observes the ways that short stories pivot on ambivalent encounters and intercultural dialogue, and she reflects on the public good of multicultural literature.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2019).
Chapter 1: Introduction - Old and New Diversity
Chapter 2: Multicultural Poetry - On Filigrees, Grafting and Mirrors
Chapter 3: The Multicultural Memoir - A Politics of Recognition for the Individual
Chapter 4: The Multicultural Novel, Part 1 - Britain Reimagined
Chapter 5: The Multicultural Novel, Part 2 - Bordered Britain
Chapter 6: The Multicultural Short Story and Intercultural Conversation
Chapter 7: Conclusion - The Public Good of (British) Multicultural Literature.
