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

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.

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