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The Cambridge companion to British Black and Asian literature : 1945-2010 /

"This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively addresses fiction, poetry, plays and performance...

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Other Authors: Osborne, Deirdre (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge Uty. Press, 2016
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction Deirdre Osborne; Part I. Traces and Routes: 1. (1940s-70s) Susheila Nasta; 2. British Black and Asian writing since 1980 Chris Weedon; Part II. Translocations and Transformations: 3. Liberationist political poetics Birgit Neumann; 4. Women's fiction and literary (self) determination Pallavi Rastogi; 5. Brutalised lives and brutalist realism Modhumita Roy; 6. Stages of representation D. Keith Peacock; Part III. Restorations and Renovations: 7. Recalibrating the past James Procter; 8. Black women subjects in auto/biographical discourse Suzanne Scafe; 9. British Black and Asian LGBTQ writing Kanika Batra; 10. The poetics and politics of spoken word poetry Corinne Fowler; 11. Post-colonial plurality in fiction Malachi McIntosh; Part IV. National, International, Trans-global: 12. 'Adoption aesthetics' John McLeod; 13. Genre crossings: rewriting 'the lyric' in Black British poetry Romana Huk; 14. 'Other' voices and the British literary canon Benedicte Ledent; 15. Critical outlooks Paul Warmington.