{"product_id":"writing-the-black-diasporic-city-in-the-age-of-globalization-paperback","title":"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the city as a generative, \"semicircular\" social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens' experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos--that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. \u003ci\u003eWriting the Black Diasporic City\u003c\/i\u003e draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series \u003ci\u003eCall the Midwife\u003c\/i\u003e, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series \u003ci\u003eSmall Axe\u003c\/i\u003e to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai's \u003ci\u003eA Fierce and Green Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 195\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157295403143,"sku":"9781978829664","price":53.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ff5bf9622532b869017e134dc382af04.webp?v=1733249848","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/writing-the-black-diasporic-city-in-the-age-of-globalization-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}