5. Family Memoirs: Relational Life Writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. 1. Introduction: Family Matters in Contemporary British Migration Literature 1
5. 2. Family Practices and Cultures of Relatedness 20
6. 3. Uncovering Family History: The Intergenerational Construction of Identity through Family Memory 81
7. 4. Family Secrets and Religious Conflict in the Muslim Diaspora 141
8. 5. Family Memoirs: Relational Life Writing 188
9. 6. Four Topoi of ‘Doing Family’: Food, Home, Photography, and the Body 235
10. Works Cited 263
11. Index 285