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.