Revealing instead the moments of tension and non-resolution, it addresses the way in which Evaristo’s narratives challenge and haunt the very foundations on which the hegemonic discourses of belonging and history still rest. Eng and Shinhee Han, and by Paul Gilroy, it calls into question the idea of the journey, in both Lara and Soul Tourists, as a process of self-formation and resolution of social conflicts. Locating Evaristo’s novels within recent interpretations of melancholia by Anne Anlin Cheng, by David L. The article presents a case against reading Evaristo’s work, and black British literature more generally, as Bildungsromane. Volume 63, Issue 1 PDF / ePub Corinne Fowler lives up to her name she puts the cat among the pigeons. It closely examines the precarious nature of belonging for the “second” generations of black British and their (un)belonging to the national, “originary” racial and generational lines of belonging, and to wider unresolved histories of loss that can be broadly defined as postcolonial and post-imperial. Green Unpleasant Land: creative responses to rural England’s colonial connections By Corinne Fowler (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2020), 324 pp., 19.99. The facts are there: the question is whether England can face them. As Fowler says in her epilogue, the nation is at a crossroads. This article explores the articulations of (un)belonging in Bernardine Evaristo’s novel-in-verse Lara (1997) and novel-with-verse Soul Tourists (2005). Green Unpleasant Land refutes the accusation that researchers like Corrine Fowler are ‘rewriting’ or ‘erasing’ history.
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