Title: Mongrel Nation
Description: Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom’s exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial studies.
Subjects: History, Immigrants in literature, Commonwealth literature (English), Literature and society, English literature, History and criticism, Minorities in literature, Cultural pluralism, Minority authors, Postcolonialism in literature, Ethnic groups, Postcolonialism, English literature, history and criticism