A new world order : essays /
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New York :
Vintage International,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A new world order
- The United States
- Introduction : the burden of race
- Native son by Richard Wright
- Giovanni's room by James Baldwin
- Marvin Gaye
- Fatheralong by John Edgar Wideman
- James Baldwin: the lure of Hollywood
- Amistad
- Africa
- Introduction: Dispatches from Africa
- The fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampate' Ba
- Nadine Gordimer: the beat of history
- J.M. Coetzee : Life and the times of John C.
- The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness by Wole Soyinka
- The Caribbean
- Introduction : The gift of displacement
- St. Kitts : 19 September 1983
- A small place by Jamaica Kincaid
- The Arkansas testament by Derek Walcott
- C.L.R. James : mariner, renegade and castaway
- Edouard Glissant: promiscuities
- V.S. Naipaul
- Patrick Chamoiseau: unmarooned
- Following on : the legacy of Lamming and Selvon
- Britain
- Introduction: A little luggage
- Ignatius Sancho: a black British man of letters
- Linton Kwesi Johnson: prophet in another land
- The pioneers : Fifty years of Caribbean
- Migration to Britain
- White teeth by Zadie Smith
- Extravagant strangers
- Leeds united, life and me
- Conclusion : The high anxiety of belonging.