Muscular Multiculturalism: Bodies, Space, and Living Together in Andrea Levy's Small Island Academic Article

abstract

• Taylor & Francis Group. This article argues that Andrea Levy's 2004 novel, Small Island, and its interrogation of the politics of British multiculturalism imagines a model of multicultural encounter that prioritizes the emplaced and embodied experience. Playing off of David Cameron's call for a "muscular liberalism," I suggest that Levy imagines a "muscular multiculturalism" whereby, through difficult, corporeal interactions, the inhabitants of a shared space learn to live together.

authors

• Johansen, Emily

published proceedings

• CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION

author list (cited authors)

• Johansen, E.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Johansen, Emily

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Critique  Journal

keywords

• Intimacies
• Multiculturalism
• Muscular Liberalism
• Place
• Small Island

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/00111619.2014.959644

start page

• 383

end page

• 398

volume

• 56

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2014.959644