Other Britain, Other British, livre ebook

Britain may have ceded empire and colonies, but its colonial past permeates every corner of the land - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation 'immigrant' communities - embracing a diversity of peoples from the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In literary and cultural terms, another Britain - largely but not exclusively non-white - is being formulated. How has the changing make-up of population and self-expression found voice in literature and literary fiction?
In this wide ranging study of postcolonial and immigrant writing in Britain, ten contributors - including Booker shortlist nominee Abdulrazak Gurnah - examine the extent to which Britain's colonial heritage has shaped present-day formulations of British culture. Covering the work of key writers - including Timothy Mo, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Caryl Phillips, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro and David Dabydeen - this collection explores how such writers bring very different critical sensibilities to bear on literary conventions. Also examined are the literary contributions of writers from Jewish Britain, Irish-Britain and Australasian Britain.
Introduction by A Robert Lee (University of Kent at Canterbury)

1. Displacement and Transformation in 'The Enigma of Arrival' and 'The Satanic Verses' by Abdulrazak Gurnah (University of Kent at Canterbury)

2. Wintering: Making a Home in Britain by Louis James (University of Kent at Canterbury)

3. Setting up Home in a City of Words: Sam Sevlon's London Novels by Sucheila Nasta (Queen Mary and Westfield College, Univ of London)

4. Changing the Script: Sex, Lies and Videotapes in Hanif Kureishi, by David Dabydeen and Mike Phillips and A.Robert Lee

5. New Nations, New Selves: The Novels of Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro by Laura Hall (University of California at Berkeley)

Long Day's Journey: The Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah by A Robert Lee

6. Negotiating the Self: Jewish Fiction in Britain since 1945 by Michael Woolf (Director, Council for International Exchange, London)

7. 'Launcelot's Position': The Fiction of Irish-Britain by Eamonn Hughes (Queen's University Belfast)

8. 'In Search of the Lost Tribe': Janet Frame's England by Rod Edmond (University of Kent at Canterbury)

9. England from the Antipodes: Images of England in Australian Fiction, 1960-1988 by Gay Raines (University of Kent at Canterbury)

Notes and References

Notes on Contributors

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