Kinship Across the Black Atlantic Writing Diasporic Relations (Volume 23)
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ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press [Imprint] 2019Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9781789624540
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- Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
- Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- Migration, immigration and emigration
- Social groups, communities and identities
- Ethnic studies
- Sociology and anthropology
- Anthropology
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Anthropology
- Black Studies (Global)
- Cultural & Social
- Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science
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'Kinship Across the Black Atlantic provides an outstanding analysis of new models and modes of family-making proposed by a range of key contemporary diasporic writers. Drawing upon a wealth of critical discussions of kinship drawn from anthropology, philosophy, feminism, queer studies, and more besides, Gigi Adair pursues a series of dazzling, detailed readings of the literary re-imagining of family-making across the black Atlantic. Ever alert to the pitfalls as well as the possibilities of fictionalising kinship anew, her vibrant analysis valuably uncovers the progressive modes of kinship that diasporic writing daringly and urgently proposes, often by reaching beyond the colonial-crafted constraints of heteronormativity, genealogy and biocentric myths of 'blood'.'
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