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Before windrush : recovering an Asian and black literary heritage within Britain / edited by Pallavi Rastogi and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Asian authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Before Windrush: Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage Otherin Britain is an important intervention in the growing field of Black British literary studies. Composed of essays on non-white writers living in, or writing about, Britain in the period before the post-WW II wave of immigration, the anthology testifies to the existence of a British nation that has been multiracial and multicultural for centuries. Through an analysis of well-known figures such as Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, C...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41433-X
- 9786612414336
- 1-4438-1522-5
- OCLC:
- 821179682
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