Writing Black Britain 1948-1998: An Interdisciplinary AnthologyJames Procter The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators. |
Contents
19481998 periodising | 1 |
S NAIPAUL | 6 |
1948 to late 1960s | 13 |
LORD KITCHENER | 19 |
MERVYN MORRIS | 26 |
Essays and documents | 57 |
CLAUDIA JONES | 68 |
BARNOR HESSE | 78 |
Coming Over | 196 |
AMRYL JOHNSON | 212 |
HANIF KUREISHI | 228 |
MEERA SYAL | 252 |
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH | 259 |
ISAAC JULIEN and KOBENA MERCER | 275 |
13 | 282 |
A Postscript to the 1980s | 285 |
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References to this book
Writing Diaspora: South Asian Women, Culture, and Ethnicity Yasmin Hussain No preview available - 2005 |