Write black, write British
Subtitle: from post colonial to black British literature
By: edited by Kadija Sesay.
Contributors: George, Kadija.
Publisher: Hansib
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781870518062
Subjects: English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.; Blacks -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Race in literature.; Blacks in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Writers in prose-fiction. Towards a 'non-ghettocentric Black British vibe' : a trickster inspired approach to storytelling in Diran Adebayo's, My once upon a time / Emily Wroe; title: Significant corporeality : bodies and identities in Jackie Kay's fiction / Patrick Williams; title: 'Pivoting the centre' : the fiction of Andrea Levy / Maria Helena Lima; title: Courttia Newland's psychological realism and consequentialist ethics / R. Victoria Arana; title: The language of madness in Leone Ross' Orange laughter / Susan Yearwood; title: "Happy multicultural land"? The implications of an "excess of belonging" in Zadie Smith's White teeth / Molly Thompson. Part two: Writers in verse. Patience Agbabi : an interview / Molly Thompson; title: Cosmopolitanism and marginalisation in Bernardine Evaristo's, The emperor's babe / Dave Gunning; title: Medusa? Medusa Black! Revisionist mythology in the poetry of Dorothea Smartt / Laura Griggs; title: Benjamin Zephaniah : the Black British Griot / Eric Doumerc . Part three. Locating writers in history, culture, and society. 'Blacks in ivory towers can't write about ghettos' : West Indian worker writers in 1970s Britain / Sandra Courtman; title: The 1980s : retheorising and refashioning British identity / R. Victoria Arana; title: Concrete vistas and dreamtime peoplescapes : the rise of the Black urban novel in 1990s Britain / Fatimah Kelleher; title: Negotiating the ship on the head : Black British fiction ; Black British poetry : some considerations / Kwame Dawes; title: (Re)turning to Africa : Bernardine Evaristo's Lara and Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez; title: "We're all English now mate like it or lump it" : the Black/Britishness of Zadie Smith's White teeth / Tracey Walters; title: Marginalia : Black literature and the problem of recognition / Mahlete-Tsige Getachew; title: Prelude to a brand new purchase on black political identity : a reading of Bernardine Evaristo's Lara and Diran Adebayo's Some kind of Black / Koye Oyedeji.