Naslov
'For the teeth and glasses': Confronting Historical Silences in Andrea Levy’s 'Small Island'

Autori
Ukić Košta, Vesna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
AICED-22 THE 22nd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST 3–5 June, 2021 Literature and Cultural Studies Section: ‘Re-writing/Re-imagining the Past / - Bukurešt, 2021, 2-2

Skup
‘Re-writing / Re-imagining the Past’ (University of Bucharest)

Mjesto i datum
Bukurešt, Rumunjska, 03.06.2021. - 05.02.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Andrea Levy, Windrush, historical silence, race

Sažetak
Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel 'Small Island' is set at the time when Britain slowly started to change into a multicultural society, during and in the years immediately following World War II, and largely explores the effect that the West Indian immigrants had on white English society. As Pefect argues, that the novel “explicitly takes the arrival of the Windrush migrants in Britain, rather than the end of the war, as its narrative watershed is indicative of an attempt to confront established historiographies“ (66). How recent Britain's history in terms of race and racism so vividly portrayed in 'Small Island' resonates with contemporary society and how this history “can be lived and made meaningful in the present” (MacPhee 158) are some of the issues which lie in the focus of my discussion. As opposed to many other contemporary fictions which offer a more optimistic vision of multicultural British society, such as Zadie Smith's 'White Teeth' or Monica Ali's 'Brick Lane', it is argued that Levy's revisiting history is much more critical of the present.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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