Write black, write British : from post colonial to black British literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: George, Kadija
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Hansib, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Writers in prose-fiction. Towards a 'non-ghettocentric Black British vibe' : a trickster inspired approach to storytelling in Diran Adebayo's, My once upon a time / Emily Wroe
  • Significant corporeality : bodies and identities in Jackie Kay's fiction / Patrick Williams
  • 'Pivoting the centre' : the fiction of Andrea Levy / Maria Helena Lima
  • Courttia Newland's psychological realism and consequentialist ethics / R. Victoria Arana
  • The language of madness in Leone Ross' Orange laughter / Susan Yearwood
  • "Happy multicultural land"? The implications of an "excess of belonging" in Zadie Smith's White teeth / Molly Thompson. Part two: Writers in verse. Patience Agbabi : an interview / Molly Thompson
  • Cosmopolitanism and marginalisation in Bernardine Evaristo's, The emperor's babe / Dave Gunning
  • Medusa? Medusa Black! Revisionist mythology in the poetry of Dorothea Smartt / Laura Griggs
  • Benjamin Zephaniah : the Black British Griot / Eric Doumerc . Part three. Locating writers in history, culture, and society. 'Blacks in ivory towers can't write about ghettos' : West Indian worker writers in 1970s Britain / Sandra Courtman
  • The 1980s : retheorising and refashioning British identity / R. Victoria Arana
  • Concrete vistas and dreamtime peoplescapes : the rise of the Black urban novel in 1990s Britain / Fatimah Kelleher
  • Negotiating the ship on the head : Black British fiction ; Black British poetry : some considerations / Kwame Dawes
  • (Re)turning to Africa : Bernardine Evaristo's Lara and Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez
  • "We're all English now mate like it or lump it" : the Black/Britishness of Zadie Smith's White teeth / Tracey Walters
  • Marginalia : Black literature and the problem of recognition / Mahlete-Tsige Getachew
  • Prelude to a brand new purchase on black political identity : a reading of Bernardine Evaristo's Lara and Diran Adebayo's Some kind of Black / Koye Oyedeji.