Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

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The present volume focuses on the liminal space which postcolonial youngsters inhabit in contemporary Britain as dramatised in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables and sociocultural interpellation. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction 1 Yes, We Can 2 Life Goes On: Youth, the Postcolonial and Liminality 3 Genre Matters 4 Survey of Chapters Works Cited Part 1 Youth, Home and Belonging Chapter 1 Evil Children of the Diaspora Andrea Levy’s “Deborah” 1 Ethnicity, Gender and the Short Story in Britain 2 Evil Children: Contemporary Debates 3 Subaltern Cityscapes: “Deborah” 4 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 2 “the world was a strange place to be caught living in”: Aspects of Liminality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John 1 Introduction 2 Annie John as a Postcolonial Short Story Sequence 3 Attraction and Repulsion: Annie and her Girlfriends 4 Herstory: Annie’s Becoming Independent 5 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando’s Homesick 1 Introduction 2 Adolescence as a Liminal Transition in the Formation of Identity 3 Adolescent Preethi in “Sophocles’ Chorus” 4 Mumtaz’s Adolescence in “Mumtaz Chaplin” and “The Terrorist’s Foster Grandmother” 5 Conclusion Works Cited Part 2 Youth, Nation and Narration Chapter 4 Growing Up Multiply: British Women Write the Ampersand Experience 1 Introduction 2 The British Ampersand generation? Counting (on) Mixed Race 3 Writing Lives: Tangled Roots and Stories of Becoming 4 Jackie Kay’s Border-Crossing Genealogies 5 Girl, Woman, Other: The Microhistory of Mixed Britishness 6 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin’s Stories for Young Readers 1 Introduction 2 The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories 3 Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales 4 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 6 “A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You”: The Quest for Identity and Sociocultural Change in Ravinder Randhawa’s Dynamite 1 Introduction 2 Ravinder Randhawa and Dynamite 3 Self-Validation as a Strategy: “India” 4 Finding One’s Place in the World: “Time Traveller” 5 Conclusion Works Cited Part 3 Youth, Dislocation and Transformation Chapter 7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories 1 Introduction 2 Adolescence in Theory 3 Liminality and the Short Story 4 Hanif Kureishi’s “Touched”: Let’s go East! 5 Leila Aboulela’s “The Boy from the Kebab Shop”: Adolescence and Transnational Umma 6 Diriye Osman’s “Shoga”: Queer Youth 7 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 8 From “Partial Presence” to “Disruptive Impurity”: The Diasporic Adolescent in Leila Aboulela’s Short Fiction 1 Liminal Subjects and Narratives 2 The Diasporic Adolescent between Sameness and Difference: The Mimic Girl 3 In Limbo: Sameness Questioned 4 Home/Identity: Work in Progress 5 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 9 “I’m the Only One”: Transgressing Notions of Postcolonial Adolescence in the Contemporary Black British Short Story 1 Introduction 2 (Re-)Linking Adolescence, Postcoloniality and the Short Story 3 Postcolonial Youth in the Black British Short Story 4 Zadie Smith’s Explorations of Postcolonial Adolescence: Mark, Magid, Ruth, and Martha 5 Zadie Smith’s “I’m the Only One” 6 Conclusion Works Cited Part 4 Youth, Religion and Global Politics Chapter 10 The Virgin’s Consent: British Muslim Identity, Cultural Heritage and Gender in Young Adult Fiction 1 Introduction 2 Sufiya Ahmed, Secrets of the Henna Girl and “Tears and Tantrums” 3 Nazneen Ahmed, “Ghazal” 4 Muhammad Khan, I Am Thunder 5 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 11 Reading for Resilience: Postcolonial Aesthetics in the Post-9/11 British Novel for the Young 1 Introduction 2 Writing in Juxtaposition 3 Writing Encounters 4 Writing Histories 5 Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 12 “Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)”: From Islamophobia to Brexit in A Change Is Gonna Come 1 Introduction 2 A Change Is Gonna Come: Anthologising Liminal Experiences 3 Yasmin Rahman’s “Fortune Favours the Bold”: Confronting Islamophobia and Anxiety 4 Nikesh Shukla’s “We Who?”: Brexit and Islamophobia 5 Conclusions Works Cited Index