In Jackie Kay’s fiction and poetry, differences of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class are interwoven, and reveal the complex and intricate fabric of identity, seen as a site of personal and social contestation. The life narratives of the daughter confronting her biological mother and her adoptive parents ("The Adoption Papers," 1991), or of a jazz man (member of an interracial couple and adoptive father of a black boy), who, after his death, is revealed to be a woman ("Trumpet," 1998), expose a major issue of contemporary postcolonial literature – the hybrid nature of identity – and represent it not as a mere source of fragmentation and confusion, but as the starting point of a journey backwards and inwards. By tracing their origins and recollecting their personal stories, Kay’s fictional voices reject normative ideas of racial, national, and sexual identity, and explore and re-create their past and identity.
"Celtic-Afro.Caribbean...how kin ye be both?": Jackie Kay's Re-definitions of Identity / Coppola, Maria Micaela. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 289-299.
Titolo: | "Celtic-Afro.Caribbean...how kin ye be both?": Jackie Kay's Re-definitions of Identity | |
Autori: | Coppola, Maria Micaela | |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions | |
Luogo di edizione: | Trento | |
Casa editrice: | Università di Trento. Dipartimento di Filosofia, storia, Beni culturali | |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2006 | |
ISBN: | 9788884431752 | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/65245 | |
Citazione: | "Celtic-Afro.Caribbean...how kin ye be both?": Jackie Kay's Re-definitions of Identity / Coppola, Maria Micaela. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 289-299. | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 02.1 Saggio su volume miscellaneo o Capitolo di libro (Essay or Book Chapter) |
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