British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity

This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British multiculturalism, superdiversity and conviviality, Ulla Rahbek studies a broad range of texts by writers from across the majority-minority divide. The text focuses on figurative registers and metaphorical richness in multicultural poetry and investigates the interlocked issue of recognition, representation and identity in memoirs. Rahbek analyses how twenty-first-century British multicultural novels both envision and reimagine an inclusive nation and thematise the detrimental effects of individual exclusion on characters' pursuits of the good life. She observes the ways that short stories pivot on ambivalent encounters and intercultural dialogue, and she reflects on the public good of multicultural literature.

Incorporates socio-political and humanistic explorations of multiculturalism Examines how multiculturalism is understood in various genres Highlights a wide range British authors from different ethnic and religious backgrounds

Autorentext

Ulla Rahbek is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Copenhagen University, Denmark. Her most recent publications are Global Voices (2016) and, with Eva Rask Knudsen, In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (2016).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction Old and New Diversity.- Chapter 2: Multicultural Poetry On Filigrees, Grafting and Mirrors.- Chapter 3: The Multicultural Memoir A Politics of Recognition for the Individual.- Chapter 4: The Multicultural Novel, Part 1 Britain Reimagined.- Chapter 5: The Multicultural Novel, Part 2 Bordered Britain.- Chapter 6: The Multicultural Short Story and Intercultural Conversation.- Chapter 7: Conclusion The Public Good of (British) Multicultural Literature.