Black and Asian British Life Writing: Race, Gender and Representation in Selected Novels From the 1990s
Journal: Open Research Online (The Open University)
Year: 2012

This thesis explores six post-1990s black and Asian British women novelists and the ways in which they utilise life writing strategies in their novels. Using a comparative approach, it explores how their novels are informed by issues of diaspora, hybridity and cultural identity, and how these questions are implicitly linked to the autobiographical nature of their novels. Attention is paid to how these novelists represent their individual subjective identities and how their particular experiences