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Settling Down and Setting Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian Black British Women’s Writing
Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside “in place” in the nations of their birth.
Andrea Medovarski is an Assistant Professor in Black diaspora cultural studies in York University’s Department of Humanities.