Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998 : an interdisciplinary anthology
James Procter (Editor)
"Brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period ... includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators ... [accommodates] popular and 'high' cultural materials from across the disciplines of literature, film, photography, history, sociology, politics, Marxism, feminism, cultural and communications studies"--Publisher
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, UK, New York, 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780719053818, 9780719053825, 0719053811, 071905382X
42476770
1948 to late 1960's : literatures
Colonisation in reverse ; De victory parade / Louise Bennett
London is the place for me ; My landlady's too rude
/ Lord Kitchener
Migrant in London ; Roomseeker in London / James Berry
London / Nissim Ezekiel
Two in London / Wole Soyinka
Letter from England / Mervyn Morris
A northern city / B. Parthasarathy
Finding Piccadilly Circus ; Eldorado, west one / Samuel Selvon
Swans ; The emigrants / George Lamming
Busman's blues / Donald Hinds
To sir, with love / E.R. Braithwaite
All about H. Hatterr / G.V. Desani
The emigrants, part I / Kamau Brathwaite
The middle passage / V.S. Naipaul
1948 to late 1960's : essays and documents
Journey to an expectation / George Lamming
Africans and Afro-Caribbeans : a personal view / C.L.R. James
Colour bar / Learie Constantine
The Caribbean community in Britain / Claudia Jones
Blacks and crime in postwar Britain / Paul Gilroy
Black to front and black again / Barnor Hesse
Reconstruction work : images of postwar black settlement / Stuart Hall
Late 1960's to mid-1980's : literatures
Nock nock oo nock e nock / Jimi Rand
Notting Hill Carnival, 1975 / Andrew Salkey
May the force be with you / Marsha Prescod
Yuh hear bout? / Valerie Bloom
Five nights of bleeding ; Dread beat an blood ; Wat about di workin claas / Linton Kwesi Johnson
Call it what yu like / Benjamin Zephaniah
A mugger's game ; Crossing the fence / E.A. Markham
Skanking Englishman between trains ; Two old black men on a Leicester Square park bench ; The fat black woman goes shopping / Grace Nichols
Living in Earls Court / Shiva Naipaul
Iqbal Cafe / Farrukh Dhondy
Black teacher / Beryl Gilroy
In the ditch / Buchi Emecheta
Black Marsden / Wilson Harris
Late 1960's to mid-1980's : essays and documents
Britain's gulags / A. Sivanandan
Notting Hill Carnival : de road is de state de state is de road / Kwesi Owusu
Reggae, rastas and rudies / Dick Hebdige
The Caribbean Artists Movement / Kamau Brathwaite
Policing the crisis / Stuart Hall [and others]
White woman listen! / Hazel Carby
It's not like Asian ladies to answer back / Amrit Wilson
Mid-1980's to late 1990's : literatures
Coming over / Caryl Phillips
Home ; Domestic flight / Fred D'Aguiar
So you think I am a mule? ; In my country / Jackie Kay
Arrival 1946 / Moniza Alvi
Visiting Yorkshire again ; When Britain had its Great / Merle Collins
London taxi driver ; Coolie odyssey / David Dabydeen
Long road to nowhere / Amryl Johnson
Riddym ravings, or, The mad woman's poem / Jean Binta Breeze
A hidden history / Ben Okri
We're not Jews / Hanif Kureishi
Yardie / Victor Headley
Cassandra and the viaduct / Rukshana Ahmad
Finding my voice / Meera Syal
Windrush welcome ; Uncle Mo Mo steps out ; Remember the ship / John Agard
What Stephen Lawrence has taught us / Benjamin Zephaniah
Mid-1980's to late 1990's : essays and documents
The Handsworth songs letters / Salman Rushdie, Stuart Hall and Darcus Howe
New ethnicities / Stuart Hall
De margin and de centre / Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer
Back to my routes : a postscript to the 1980's / Kobena Mercer
Black feminism : the politics of articulation / Pratibha Parmar
How newness enters the world : postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation / Homi Bhabha
Cruciality and the frog's perspective : an agenda of diffuculties for the Black arts movement in Britain / Paul Gilroy