Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Jeffers, Asha
Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Jeffers, Asha

Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

Against! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United...
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Author: Asha Jeffers
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Language: English
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Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Jeffers, Asha

Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

$431.20
Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Jeffers, Asha

Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

$431.20
Author: Asha Jeffers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Against! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffers evaluates the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US as depicted through the recurring theme of rebellious Black immigrant daughters. Considering the work of Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Taiye Selasi, Jeffers untangles how rebellion is informed by race, gender, ethnicity, and migration status. Immigrant and second-generation writers mobilize often complicated familial relationships to comment on a variety of political, social, and psychic contexts. Jeffers argues that rather than categorizing Black migrants as either immediately fully integrated into an African American experience or seeing them as another category altogether that is unbound by race, Marshall, Danticat, Adichie, and Selasi identify the unstable position of Black migrants within the American racial landscape. By highlighting the diverse ways Black migrants and their children negotiate this position amid the dual demands of the respectability politics imposed on African Americans and the model-minority myth imposed on immigrants, Jeffers reveals the unsteady nature of US racial categories.



Author: Asha Jeffers
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 01/17/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780814215791

About the Author
Asha Jeffers is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on literature about the children of immigrants across national and ethnic lines. She is coeditor of The Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study.


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