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- Title
The Black Atlantic as Dystopia: Bernardine Evaristo's "Blonde Roots."
- Authors
Newman, Judie
- Abstract
The article critiques and compares the books "The Black Atlantic: Modernism and Double Consciousness" by Paul Gilroy and "Blonde Roots" by Bernardine Evaristo. The author discusses themes of utopianism in the novels and the diasporic qualities of the black Atlantic. Other topics explored include the Middle Passage, notions of modernity, and scientific racism.
- Subjects
BLONDE Roots (Book); BLACK Atlantic: Modernity &; Double Consciousness, The (Book); EVARISTO, Bernardine, 1959-; GILROY, Paul; MODERNITY; UTOPIAS; MIDDLE passage (Slave trade)
- Publication
Comparative Literature Studies, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
0010-4132
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.5325/complitstudies.49.2.0283