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Living cargo : how Black Britain performs its past /

Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, "Living Cargo" explores how contemporary black British culture m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blevins, Steven, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Arts, Black > Great Britain > 21st century > Themes, motives. Arts and history > Great Britain > History > 21st century. Blacks > Great Britain > Intellectual life > 21st century. English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.

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