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"Home Is Where You Feel a Welcome": Homemaking as National Belonging in 20th and 21st c. Black British Novels.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Home Is Where You Feel a Welcome": Homemaking as National Belonging in 20th and 21st c. Black British Novels./
Author:	Photopoulos, Cornelia C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-10A.
Subject:	Caribbean literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27738135
ISBN:	9781658416016

"Home Is Where You Feel a Welcome": Homemaking as National Belonging in 20th and 21st c. Black British Novels.
Photopoulos, Cornelia C.

"Home Is Where You Feel a Welcome": Homemaking as National Belonging in 20th and 21st c. Black British Novels. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 228 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In "Home is where you feel a welcome": Homemaking as National Belonging in 20th and 21st c. Black British Novels, I argue that through depictions of homemaking, black British novelists reflect and refract the possibilities for black British national belonging. I draw on Benedict Anderson's foundational work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, which has continued to provide a theoretical structure for understanding the nation as an ideological construct since its publication in 1983. Anderson argues that the nation as idea is disseminated through media; the cultivation of interpersonal ties within a shared locality, formerly the organizing principle of politics, is replaced by a collection of remotely disseminated national narratives.In this project, I expand upon, and challenge, Anderson's formulation. Through their representations of homemaking, Joan Riley, Sam Selvon, Caryl Phillips, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, and Zadie Smith produce narratives about Britain and black Britain, and thus imagine community in accordance with Anderson's paradigm. However, the trope of homemaking, which centers the physicality of spatiality and embodiment, reflects the importance of the material to national belonging, refuting the notion that imagination alone can create or sustain the nation. The metaphor of the nation as "home" is continually complicated by the materiality of the house and its inhabitants. The implicitly white imperial British national imaginary that positioned England as "home" didnot make ideological space for people of color, and often actively excluded them. The narrowness of the British national narrative in turn manifested in the real struggle for housing faced by black subjects in the United Kingdom. By foregrounding the irreducibly physical practice of homemaking, I argue that black British novelists are both asserting themselves as creators of the British national imaginary, and also demonstrating how the rhetoric of national belonging fails to contend with the embodied experience of belonging that the raced, classed and gendered practice of homemaking describes.

ISBN: 9781658416016Subjects--Topical Terms:

3173897
Caribbean literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Black British

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