Dawson, Ashley, 1965-,

Mongrel Nation Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / [print] Ashley Dawson. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .



Colonization in reverse : an introduction ; -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners-- -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement-- -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry-- -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation-- -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses-- -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth-- -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.

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Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
Cultural pluralism--Great Britain.
English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Ethnic groups--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Immigrants in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Minorities in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Great Britain.

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