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.

List of contents

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 Bénédicte Ledent; 15. Critical outlooks Paul Warmington.

About the author

Deirdre Osborne is Reader in English Literature and Drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research interests span late-Victorian literature and maternity, to Black British writing. She has guest-edited the Special Issue 'Contemporary Black British Women's Writing' Women: A Cultural Review (2009) and co-edited Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (2014).

Summary

There are many anthologies of British Black and Asian literature, but few books provide a critical account of the qualities and impact of this literature comparatively with drama and performance. This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture.

Product details

• Authors: Deirdre Osborne, Deirdre (Goldsmiths Osborne
• Assisted by: Deirdre Osborne (Editor), Osborne Deirdre (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107139244
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13924-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary