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Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998 : an interdisciplinary anthology / edited by James Procter.

PR1110.B5 W75 2000

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Procter, James.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: English literature--Black authors.; English literature.; Immigrants--Great Britain--Literary collections.; Immigrants.; West Indian literature (English)--Black authors.; West Indian literature (English).; Black people--Great Britain--Literary collections.; Black people.; Black people--Great Britain--History--Sources.; African literature (English)--Great Britain.; African literature (English).; History.; Great Britain.
Genre:: Sources.; Literary collections.; Literature.
Physical Description:: xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Summary:: 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:: General introduction: '1948'/'1998'; periodising postwar black Britain 1; Part 1 1948 to late 1960s; Literatures; / Louise Bennett; Colonisation in Reverse 16; De Victory Parade 17; / Lord Kitchener; London Is the Place for Me 19; My Landlady's Too Rude... 20; / James Berry; Migrant in London 20; Roomseeker in London 21; / Nissim Ezekiel; London 21; / Wole Soyinka; Two in London 23; / Mervyn Morris; Letter from England 26; / B. Parthasarathy; A Northern City 27; / Samuel Selvon; Finding Piccadilly Circus 27; Eldorado, West One 30; / George Lamming; Swans 34; The Emigrants 36; / Donald Hinds; Busman's Blues 40; / E.R. Braithwaite; To Sir, with Love 45; / G.V. Desani; All About H. Hatterr 49; / Kamau Brathwaite; The Emigrants [part I] 52; / V.S. Naipaul; The Middle Passage 54; Essays and documents; Journey to an Expectation 57; / C.L.R. James; Africans and Afro-Caribbeans: A Personal View 60; / Learie Constantine; Colour Bar 63; / Claudia Jones; The Caribbean Community in Britain 68; / Paul Gilroy; Blacks and Crime in Postwar Britain 71; / Barnor Hesse; Black to Front and Black Again 78; / Stuart Hall; Reconstruction Work: Images of Postwar Black Settlement 82; Part 2 Late 1960s to mid-1980s; / Jimi Rand; Nock Nock Oo Nock E Nock 98; / Andrew Salkey; Notting Hill Carnival, 1975 99; / Marsha Prescod; May the Force Be With You 100; / Valerie Bloom; Yuh Hear Bout? 101; / Linton Kwesi Johnson; Five Nights of Bleeding 102; Dread Beat an Blood 104; Wat About di Workin Claas 105; / Benjamin Zephaniah; Call It What Yu Like 106; / E.A. Markham; A Mugger's Game 109; Crossing the Fence 109; / Grace Nichols; Skanking Englishman between Trains 110; Two Old Black Men on a Leicester Square Park Bench 111; The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping 112; / Shiva Naipaul; Living in Earls Court 113; / Farrukh Dhondy; Iqbal Cafe 121; / Beryl Gilroy; Black Teacher 132; / Buchi Emecheta; In the Ditch 139; / Wilson Harris; Black Marsden 143; / A. Sivanandan; Britain's Gulags 149; / Kwesi Owusu; Notting Hill Carnival: 'De Road is de Stage de Stage is de Road' 154; / Dick Hebdige; Reggae, Rastas and Rudies 161; The Caribbean Artists Movement 167; / Stuart Hall, C. Critcher, T. Jefferson, J. Clarke, B. Roberts; Policing the Crisis 170; / Hazel Carby; White Woman Listen! 177; / Amrit Wilson; It's Not Like Asian Ladies to Answer Back 184; Part 3 Mid-1980s to late 1990s; / Caryl Phillips; Coming Over 196; / Fred D'Aguiar; Home 200; Domestic Flight 201; / Jackie Kay; So You Think I Am a Mule? 202; In My Country 204; / Moniza Alvi; Arrival 1946 204; / Merle Collins; Visiting Yorkshire - Again 204; When Britain Had its GREAT 206; / David Dabydeen; London Taxi Driver 207; Coolie Odyssey 208; / Amryl Johnson; Long Road to Nowhere 212; / Jean Binta Breeze; Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) 219; / Ben Okri; A Hidden History 222; / Hanif Kureishi; We're Not Jews 228; / Victor Headley; Yardie 236; / Rukshana Ahmad; Cassandra and the Viaduct 240; / Meera Syal; Finding My Voice 252; / John Agard; Windrush Welcome 256; Uncle Mo Mo Steps Out 257; Remember the Ship 258; What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us 259; / Salman Rushdie, Stuart Hall, Darcus Howe; The Handsworth Songs Letters 261; New Ethnicities 265; / Isaac Julien, Kobena Mercer; De Margin and de Centre 275; / Kobena Mercer; Back to my Routes: A Postscript to the 1980s 285; / Pratibha Parmar; Black Feminism: The Politics of Articulation 293; / Homi Bhabha; How Newness Enters the World: Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Times and the Trials of Cultural Translation 300; Cruciality and the Frog's Perspective: An Agenda of Difficulties for the Black Arts Movement in Britain 307.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-332) and index.
ISBN:: 0719053811; 071905382X
OCLC:: 42476770

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