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The goal of this thesis is to analyse and compare the representation of black British everyday life (and their relationship to race) in two novels: Andrea Levy's "Fruit of the Lemon" and Diana Evans's "Ordinary People".

black British literature --- Andrea Levy --- Diana Evans --- race --- racism --- memory --- Arts & sciences humaines > Littérature

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the

Oriental fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Oriental literature (English) --- British writers. --- South Asian descent. --- black British literature. --- diasporic literature. --- gender. --- migrant literature. --- national identity. --- post-9/11 Britain. --- postcolonial literature. --- religious identity.

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Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth. Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women's writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.

English literature --- Canadian literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Canadian literature (English) --- Black British literature. --- Black Canadian literature. --- black diaspora. --- children of immigrants. --- critical multiculturalism. --- cultural studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary studies. --- second generation. --- Great Britain. --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature canadienne --- Identité (psychologie) --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Enfants d'immigrés --- Auteurs noirs --- Histoire et critique. --- Femmes écrivains --- Dans la littérature. --- Vie intellectuelle.