Afterlives, Aftermaths: Levy Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Gary Younge, "After a Life of Striving" I. Introduction: The Arrival of Levy Studies In his Guardian eulogy for the award-winning writer Andrea Levy, journalist and academic Gary Younge pays tribute to the indelible ways in which Levy transformed the cultural and aesthetic landscape of con...

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Published in:	Ariel 2022-01, Vol.53 (1-2), p.7-24
Main Authors:	Saroukhani, Henghameh, Welsh, Sarah Lawson, Perfect, Michael
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aesthetics Archives & records Black British people British & Irish literature Canadian literature English literature Fiction Levy, Andrea (1956-2019) Migrants Politics Refugees Slavery Transnationalism Writers Writing
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Summary:	Gary Younge, "After a Life of Striving" I. Introduction: The Arrival of Levy Studies In his Guardian eulogy for the award-winning writer Andrea Levy, journalist and academic Gary Younge pays tribute to the indelible ways in which Levy transformed the cultural and aesthetic landscape of contemporary writing in Britain. In a political climate that has heightened the nativist impulses behind Britain's decision to leave the European Union, exposed an attendant history of antagonistic immigration policies through the catastrophe of the Windrush scandal, and intensified the continued demonization of migrants, refugees, and the "undocumented" around the world, we explore the lasting political imperative of Levy's complex aesthetic vision. Whether it is through Levy's exploration of refugees and asylum seekers, the exclusionary practices of the nation, forms of racial melancholia, comparative global empires, cosmopolitanism, adoption, or transatlantic slavery, our contributors interrogate what it means to critically read, reread, adapt, and even teach Levy in ways that necessarily move beyond adulation. By situating this collection of criticism and unpublished material from her archive in a Canadian journal (one that also housed an in memoriam special issue on the Trinidadian-born writer Sam Selvon in 1996), we seek to materially concretize Levy's transnational and outer-national significance.
ISSN:	1920-1222 0004-1327 1920-1222