Search results for "Black British"

A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore

2012

Re-inscriptions of the Black British Identity Mosaic in Bernardine Evaristo’s Early Fiction

2010

Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara: Transnational Axes of Identity Articulation

2010

Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: Re-Narrating Roman Britannia; De-Essentializing British National Identity

2014

The essay aims to demonstrate that, by representing the Black group as integral to British history, Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor’s Babe imaginatively intervenes into the contemporary transmission of European history by unseating the conventional notion of racial purity on which the Western historical archive has been built. The novel thus questions hegemonic notions of Britishness and simultaneously re-inscribes them by offering new inclusive configurations of the British identity. Evaristo’s complex articulation of inter- and intra-gender power relations prevents the novel from developing the ethnic motif in simplistic celebratory terms and simultaneously enables the narrative to intr…

Identità nere e cultura europea. La narrativa di Bernardine Evaristo

2014

Informed by a theoretical-critical grid in which the main hermeneutical paradigms of Gender theories, British cultural studies and Post-colonial studies converge to intersect in an inextricable way with the theories of Black British feminism, Black British cultural studies and of “Critical Mixed Race Studies”, the monograph focuses on the interpretative analysis of the narrative production of Bernardine Evaristo, a London-born Anglo-Nigerian Booker-winner writer, who is now considered one of the most original voices in the contemporary British literary scene. On the basis of a complex theoretical-interpretative paradigm, within which the analytical categories of gender and "race" are concei…

Deconstruction and Re-writing of Englishness and the European Cultural Identity in Bernardine Evaristo's Narrative

2011

If analysed through a theoretical grid whose critical paradigms originate within an analytical area where British cultural studies, gender and postcolonial studies interweave Bernardine Evaristo's fictions shows peculiar narrative strategies – in terms of genre, stylistic experimentation (novels-inverse and a novel-with-verse) and inspiring motifs – which allow her (from the specific perspective of an ANglo-Nigerian London-born wiman writer of mixed origins) to intervene within traditionally hegemonic representational circuits – be they British or European – so contributing to re-write/re-right the notion of English national identity and to re-examine European history from new nonexclusiona…

'Sinking Hopeful Roots into Difficult Soil': Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River.

1998

This article proposes a reading of Caryl Phillips Booker-shortlisted novel Crossing the River as an exemplary text of the African Diaspora.

Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: Re-narrating Roman Britannia, De-essentialising European History

2019

Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001) contributes to the imaginative disentanglement of the traditional British ethnicity-and-nation nexus and questions the related founding myth of racial purity by featuring the character of Zuleika, a young black woman who is born of Sudanese parents in Roman London. Through the depiction of Zuleika, Evaristo offers a subversive reshaping of some versions of the official British national history in the context of a wider revision of the European classical past. However, in spite of its temporal setting, Evaristo’s historical novel simultaneously engages with contemporary issues of gendered racialisation and national belonging. In its highly orch…

Black European Inscriptions and the Challenge to Modern Essentialist Identities: The Case of Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists

2013

This essay shows how the London-born Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo contributes, with her Soul Tourists (2005), to deconstructing modern European nationalist and racially exclusivist models by means of anti-essentialist representational strategies. Centred around the voyage by car and across Europe which, in the late eighties, leads two black Britons, Stanley Williams and Jessie O’Donnell, from England to the Middle East, the novel becomes an imaginative vehicle through which Evaristo represents the black presence as intrinsic to Europe since the th century and foregrounds the substantial contribution of black and mixed-race men and women to the cultural development of Western …

Questioning the Canon and Re-Writing/Re-Righting the Female Colonized Subject: Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures and George Bernard Shaw’s The Adve…

2021

Albeit different in terms of formal solutions and conception, Mary Seacole’s 'Wonderful Adventures' (1857) and G.B. Shaw’s 'The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God' (1932) share an oppositional aesthetics which, in both cases, helps undermine any prevailing representation of the colonial Other. Indeed, Seacole’s and Shaw’s works manipulate the trope of travel in such a way as to overcome traditional conceptions of the literary canon as well as hegemonic visions of subjectivities. In taking into consideration the innovative representation of the Black colonized woman as delineated in both works, the essay aims to show the way in which they present an anti-normative identity mo…