The Possibilities of Home
Negotiating City Spaces in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Littlewood Mckibbin (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 502-518 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021934707306587 |
| OpenAlex | W2137248066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This discussion of Dionne Brand's novel What We All Long For focuses on the degree to which the second-generation characters are able to feel at home in Toronto. The article treats the city as the location where immigration, Blackness, racism, and other social factors meet and analyzes how each character negotiates space in his or her efforts to claim a home
Character (mathematics) · Immigration · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · American and British Literature Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |