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Graves, Benjamin Suzuki.

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Affective Citizenship: Gender and Narratives of Affiliation in Multi-Ethnic British Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Affective Citizenship: Gender and Narratives of Affiliation in Multi-Ethnic British Literature./
Author:	Graves, Benjamin Suzuki.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	96 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10607621
ISBN:	9780355576702

Affective Citizenship: Gender and Narratives of Affiliation in Multi-Ethnic British Literature.
Graves, Benjamin Suzuki.

Affective Citizenship: Gender and Narratives of Affiliation in Multi-Ethnic British Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 96 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2017.

This dissertation explores the vexed or thwarted longing for community shaping multi-ethnic British fiction from the 1970s onwards. I examine the work of five authors---Buchi Emecheta, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Alan Hollinghurst, and Jackie Kay---whose writings foreground the affective dimensions of British citizenship and the complex processes of affiliation and disaffiliation by which black, Asian, and queer Britons claim belonging in the imagined community of the nation. At a time when postcolonial literary studies increasingly privileges, without really interrogating, an idealized rhetoric of "conviviality", the negative, anti-relational, and disaggregating emotions circulating in their works bring into uncomfortable focus the factors that undermine the forging of politicized identities and communities in black Britain. Their writings also converge in a discursive concern with what I call, after Edward Said, "affiliation", a process in which citizenship claims are facilitated by prosthetic or proxy figures hailing from often remote cultural quarters, ranging from the English ice dancers Torvill and Dean to the American blues singer Bessie Smith.

ISBN: 9780355576702Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

Affective Citizenship: Gender and Narratives of Affiliation in Multi-Ethnic British Literature.
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