Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story [Hardcover]

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development 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 Nancys deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.  

1.      Introduction

 

 

Part I: The Early Black British Short Story, c 1950-1980

 

3.      The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon

 

 

Part II: Hanif Kureishi and the Black British Short Story since the 1980s

 

5.    A New Way of Being British: Kureishis Ethnic Short Stories

 

6.      Human Commonalities: Kureishis Postethnic Short Stories

Part III: The Local Black Bril­