Titlebook: Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story; Bettina Jansen Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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Introduction, from black British writing in other genres, black British short stories have early on tended to surpass their specific black British and postcolonial context and to reimagine community on a more general, even ontological level.

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The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon exclusion from a society that clings to a monocultural, anglocentric notion of Britishness. Nevertheless, Jansen demonstrates that even Selvon’s early stories challenge the thinking of community as essence in various ways, most radically in “My Girl and the City”.

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Scottish Community between Essence and (De-)Construction: Suhayl Saadiations, stories like “Imbolc,” “Beltane,” “Samhain,” and “Braga” caricature and thereby deconstruct essentialist notions of community that associate Scottishness with a specific phenotype and a fixed set of national characteristics. Like Kay’s stories, they imagine a singularly plural, non-essentialist, and inoperative Scottish nation.

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Conclusion interconnection. Jansen suggests that the genre serves many writers as a vehicle to experiment with a ‘new humanism’ (Frantz Fanon), a post-universalist ‘planetary humanism’ (Paul Gilroy) that proposes an alternative politics and ethics of community.

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Book 2018ment from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By. .combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key te

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