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Black British writing / [edited] by R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey.
Van Pelt Library PR120.B55 B58 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Black authors.
- Black people--Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- Race relations in literature.
- Black people in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays provides an international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English literature, and presents imaginative, theoretically sophisticated, and practical strategies for doing so. It offers a pedagogical, pragmatic, and ideological introduction to the field for those without background, and an integrated body of current and stimulating essays for those who are already knowledgeable.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Narrating the Africanist Presence in the Early Modern Survey of English Literature / Ann Kelly 9
- Chapter 2 Sea Change: Historicizing the Scholarly Study of Black British Writing / R. Victoria Arana 19
- Chapter 3 The Politics of Teaching Black and British / Maria Helena Lima 47
- Chapter 4 The Evolution of Black London / Judith Bryan 63
- Chapter 5 Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Black British Writing / Chris Weedon 73
- Chapter 6 Transformations Within the Black British Novel / Kadija George Sesay 99
- Chapter 7 Contemporary Black British Poetry / Lauri Ramey 109
- Chapter 8 The Sociopolitics of Black Britain in the Work of Buchi Emecheta / Susan Yearwood 137
- Chapter 9 Deterritorialization, Black British Writers, and the Case of Ben Okri / Jude Chudi Okpala 145
- Chapter 10 The Black Man and the Dark Lady: The Imaginary African in Early Modern and Modern British Writers / Alinda J. Sumers 161
- Chapter 11 A Black Briton's View of Black British Literature and Scholarship / Tracey Walters 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1403965552
- OCLC:
- 54407622
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