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  • 39 - Post-Ethnicity and the Politics of Positionality

  • from (II) - Framing New Visions
  • Edited by Susheila Nasta, Queen Mary University of London, Mark U. Stein, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 650-662

  • Summary

    Hollinger’s concept of ‘postethnicity’ originates in the US context and will be adapted here to capture the intense play with the interrogation, transformation and construction of ethnicity that characterizes novels by Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Kit De Waal, Diran Adebayo, and Diana Evans; the concept also serves to analyse BAME-authored texts that seek to evade unambiguous ethnic markers altogether. These strategies undercut and resist the recurrent expectation for black and Asian writers to construct protagonists of unambiguous ethnicity. In the wake of a threatened return to materiality, these novels are a radical statement on the contemporary state of ethnicity and a strategy for widening the aesthetic and thematic scope available to black and Asian British literary production.

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  • Edited by Len Platt, Goldsmiths, University of London, Sara Upstone, Kingston University, Surrey
  • Book:
    Postmodern Literature and Race
    Published online:
    05 February 2015
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015, pp 1-10
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Postmodern Literature and Race
  • Edited by Len Platt, Sara Upstone
  • Published online:
    05 February 2015
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.