TY - BOOK ID - 33059514 TI - Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story PY - 2018 SN - 3319948598 3319948601 9783319948607 9783319948591 9783030069278 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Short stories, English KW - Blacks KW - Communities in literature. KW - Community in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Communities in literature KW - History and criticism KW - E-books KW - British literature. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - Fiction. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - Philosophy KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Literature, Modern—21st century. KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - European literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - European Literature. KW - Fiction Literature. KW - European literature KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33059514 AB - Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality. . ER -