Title: A black British canon? /
Authors: Low, Gail Ching-Liang, 1960-; Wynne-Davies, Marion
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2006
Subjects: English literature Black authors History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literary essays.; Plays, playscripts.; Black & Asian studies.; Literature.; English literature Black authors; Bellettrie.; Negers.; Literatur; Kanon; Schwarze; Geistesleben; Littérature Auteurs noirs; Littérature britannique Auteurs noirs.
Abstract: A Black British Canon? examines the formation of a black British canon of writers, dramatists, artists, musicians and filmmakers and the institutional histories of that making and unmaking. It offers a multidisciplinary and genealogical account of black British art, popular music, literature, and performance, and the emergence of key writers, intellectuals, artists and texts in the field. It not only account for strategic moments and movements in such a black British textual and political history, but also debates the politics of such commemorative acts. As such, the distinctiveness of this collection of essays lies in its engagement with the politics and poetics of canon formation across different artistic fields and its multicultural pedagogic implications. Both researchers in the field and a more general readership will be able to engage with the controversies surrounding the definition of black British.
Contents: Foreword: migration, modernity and English writing : reflections on migrant identity and canon formation / Mike Phillips -- Interrogating the canon: 'The ghost of other stories' : Salman Rushdie and the question of canonicity? / James Procter ; Not good enough or not man enough? : Beryl Gilroy as the anomaly in the evolving 'black British canon' / Sandra Courtman ; In the eyes of the beholder : diversity and cultural politics of conon reformation in Britain / Femi Folorunso in conversation with Gail Low and Marion Wynne-Davies (9 Dec. 2004) -- New languages of criticism: Fantasy relationships : black British canons in a transnational world / John McLeod ; 'New forms' : towards a critical dialogue with black British 'popular' fictions / Andy Wood -- Genealogies and interventions: Texts of cultural practice : black theatre and performance in the UK / Michael McMillan ; Canon questions : art in 'black Britain' / Leon Wainwright ; 'Shaping connections' : from West Indian to black British / Gail Low ; Afterword: in praise of a black British canon and the possibilities of representing the nation 'otherwise' / Alison Donnell.