How Long to Read Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 16 minutes to read Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization by Carol Bailey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.

How long is Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization?

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization by Carol Bailey is 134 pages long, and a total of 34,036 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization aloud.

What Reading Level is Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization?

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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