Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52460-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Youth in a Globalizing World

The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come.

Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura María

Sacido-Romero, Jorge

Pereira-Ares, Noemí

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Ph.D (2000), University of Santiago de Compostela, is senior lecturer in English at that university. She has published monographs, articles, book chapters and co-edited volumes, including Borders and Border Crossing in the Contemporary British Short Story (Palgrave, 2019).

Jorge Sacido-Romero, Ph.D (2003), University of Santiago de Compostela, is senior lecturer in English at that university. He has published articles, book chapters and co-edited volumes, including Gender and Short Fiction in the Contemporary British Short Story (Routledge, 2018).

Noemí Pereira-Ares, Ph.D (2015), University of Santiago de Compostela, is assistant lecturer in English at that university. She has published articles, book chapters and monographs, including Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives: From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali (Palgrave, 2017).