Black and South Asian British Literatures

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-3-86821-766-7
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: Postcolonial Literatures in English

Postcolonial Literatures in English have become a central field of research and study all over the world. This series of introductory readers covers (1) South Asian Literatures, (2) Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Literatures, (3) African Literatures, (4) Canadian Literatures, (5) Black and South Asian British Literatures and (6) Caribbean Literatures. The edited collections of source materials are designed to help students and teachers in exploring the diversity of the global cultural networks which have arisen from the British Empire and Commonwealth. Each volume contains an introduction that sketches out major trends and developments in the region and provides recommendations for further reading. The specificities of each respective region are explored within a framework focussing on histories, identities, language, education, movements and genres, as well as transcultural perspectives. One of the lasting legacies of the British Empire is the presence of black and South Asian people in Britain. They came respectively from West Africa and the West Indies, as well as from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and have played a major role in creating the multicultural society we see around us today. They have made their mark in fields such as sport, music, literature, and film, and in so doing they are revising what we mean by British culture and are contributing to a rethinking of what is meant by “Britishness”. This volume traces their history from the 17th century to the present through a broad range of their writing including slave narratives, letters, essays, autobiography, fiction, poetry and drama. The texts selected seek to elucidate the historical, political and social contexts of the literary practice of black and South Asian people, taking account of the many issues that have determined their lives in the country and have been reflected in their writing such as slavery, racism, immigration legislation, language variety, educational opportunity, identity, and integration. This collection of texts documents and celebrates the remarkable contribution made by black and South Asian writers and cultural practitioners to the diversity of modern Britain.

Zielgruppe

The edited collections of source materials are designed to help students and teachers in exploring the diversity of the global cultural networks which have arisen from the British Empire and Commonwealth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Geoffey V.

Fuchs, Anne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

General Preface .................................................................................................................. v

Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 1

I. Histories ........................................................................................................................... 29
1. David Dabydeen, “Blacks in Eighteenth Century Art
and Society” (1987) .............................................................................................. 29
2. Paul Edwards, “Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries” (1985) .................................................................................................. 31
3a. “Ignatius Sancho to Laurence Sterne” (1766) .................................................. 33
3b. “Laurence Sterne to Ignatius Sancho” (1766) .................................................. 35
4. Olaudah Equiano, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano” (1789) ................................................................................... 36
5. Ottobah Cugoano (John Stuart), “Thoughts and Sentiments
on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce
of the Human Species” (1787) ............................................................................ 41
6. “The History of Mary Prince Related by Herself” (1831) .............................. 44
7. Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee, “Wonderful Adventures
of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands” (1984) ............................................................. 45
8. C.L. Innes, “Duse Mohamed Ali, Anti-imperial Journals,
and Black and Asian Publishing” (2008) ........................................................... 47
9. Peter Fryer, “The Post-war Immigration” (1984) ............................................ 50
10. Nasreen Ali, “South Asian Migration:
The Postcolonial Phase 1947-” (2006) .............................................................. 55
11. Caryl Phillips, “Foreigners” (2007) .................................................................... 57
12. E.R. Braithwaite, “Preface to Empire Windrush” (1998) ................................... 59
13. Caryl Phillips, “A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years of Caribbean Migration
to Britain” (1998) .................................................................................................. 62
14. Hanif Kureishi, “Knock, Knock, it’s Enoch” (2014) ...................................... 66
15. Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips, “The Irresistible Rise of
Multi-Racial Britain” (1998) ................................................................................ 70
16. “The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry” (1999) .......................................................... 73
17. Koye Oyedeji, “Prelude to a Brand New Purchase
on Black Political Identity” (2005) ..................................................................... 77
18. Kwame Kwei-Armah, “Why I Wrote Seize the Day” (2009) ............................ 79
19. Kamila Shamsie, “On Applying for British Citizenship” (2014) ................... 82

II. Identities ........................................................................................................................ 87
20. Salman Rushdie, “The New Empire within Britain” (1982) .......................... 87
21. Gabriele Griffin, “Naming Identities” (2003) .................................................. 90
22. C.L.R. James, “Africans and Afro-Caribbeans: A Personal View” (1984) .... 92
23. Linda Bellos, “Age” (2000) ................................................................................. 95
24. Stuart Hall, “Minimal Selves” (1987) ................................................................. 100
25. Peter Fryer, “Race Prejudice and Racism” (1984) ............................................ 104
26. Rozina Visram, “Colour Bar” (2002) ................................................................. 106
27. Aleks Sierz, “Rewriting the Nation” (2011) ...................................................... 109
28. Bhikhu Parekh, “A Britain we all belong to” (2000) ....................................... 112
29. Dave Gunning, “Multiculturalism and Ethnicity Politics” (2010) ................. 113
30. Philip Lewis, “Young, British and Muslim” (2007) ......................................... 117
31. Hanif Kureishi, “A New Way of Being British” (2006) .................................. 120
32. Andrea Levy, “Back to my Own Country” (2014) .......................................... 122
33. Kechi Nwajiaku, “To Be or Not To Be Black British” (2000) ....................... 126
34. Meera Syal, “Our Previously Hidden Stories” (2015) ...................................... 128
35. Office for National Statistics, “Ethnicity and National Identity
in England and Wales” (2011) ............................................................................ 131

III. Language ...................................................................................................................... 135
36. Mark Sebba and Susan Dray, “Black British English” (2007) ........................ 135
37. Tariq Modood, Richard Berthoud, et al., “Linguistic Communities
and Ethnic Minorities in Britain” (1997) ........................................................... 140
38. Hazel V. Carby, “Schooling in Babylon” (1982) .............................................. 143
39. V.K. Edwards, “British Black English and Education” (1984) ...................... 146
40. Attia Hosain, “Deep Roots, New Language” (2000) ....................................... 148
41. Dominic Hingorani, “The ‘Binglish’ Language” (2010) .................................. 151
42. Susan Croft, “Bridging Divides” (2012) ............................................................. 154
43. Paul Gilroy, “Cockney Translation” (2002) ...................................................... 157
44. Eric Doumerc, “Benjamin Zephaniah as Wordsmith” (2005) ....................... 160

IV. Education ..................................................................................................................... 163
45. Paul Warmington, “Black British Intellectuals and Education” (2014) ........ 163
46. Bernard Coard, “How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally
Subnormal in the British School System” (1971) ............................................. 167
47. Morgan Dalphinis, “Lifelong Learning” (2000) ............................................... 171
48. Tariq Modood and Stephen May, “Multiculturalism and Education
in Britain: An Internally Contested Debate” (2001) ........................................ 174
49. “‘Once you Open Doors, You Have to Walk Through Them’:
An Interview with Kully Thiarai” (2004) .......................................................... 178
50. Naila Kabeer, “Women Workers in London and Dhaka:
Ten Years On” (2000) ......................................................................................... 180
51. Rowena Mason, “Channel 4 Fallout Film Exposes ‘Real’ Face of
London Knife Crime” (2008) ............................................................................. 182
52. Alison Roberts, “London’s teenage crisis” (2007) ........................................... 185
53. Nicola Rollock, David Gillborn, Carol Vincent and Stephen J. Ball,
“A Colour-Blind Future?” (2014) ....................................................................... 187

V. Movements and Genres .............................................................................................. 193
54. Caryl Phillips, “Following On: The Legacy ......................................................
of Lamming and Selvon” (1999) ........................................................................ 193
55. David Edgar, “Saying the Unsayable” (2006) ................................................... 196
56. Roy Williams, “Black theatre’s big breakout” (2009) ...................................... 200
57. Kwame Dawes, “Black British Poetry, Some Considerations” (2003) .......... 202
58. Christian Habekost, “Verbal Riddim” (1993) ................................................... 205
59. Molly Thompson, “An Interview with Patience Agbabi” (2001) ................... 208
60. Claire Cochrane, “Engaging the Audience” (2012) ......................................... 211
61. Chandrika Patel, “Tamasha – A Fine Balance” (2012) ...................................... 215
62. Victoria Sams, “Social/Sexual Trauma and the Pressure
to Be a ‘Good Girl’” (2014) ............................................................................... 218
63. Modhumita Roy, “Brutalist Realism” (2016) .................................................... 219

VI. Transcultural Perspectives ....................................................................................... 225
64. Elleke Boehmer and Naella Grew, “India Calling” (2004) ............................... 225
65. Rozina Visram, “Asian Literary Personalities in Britain” (2002) ................... 228
66. Stuart Hall, “Reinventing Britain” (1999) ......................................................... 229
67. Homi Bhabha, “The Vernacular Cosmopolitan” (2000) ................................. 231
68. Mike Phillips, “Transcultural Transformation
in the Heart of Europe” (2009) .......................................................................... 234
69. Rehana Ahmed, “Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and its Reception” (2015) ........... 236
70. Judie Newman, “Intertextuality” (1995) ............................................................. 239
71. Tracey L. Walters, “‘We’re All English Now Mate,
Like It or Lump It’” (2005) ................................................................................ 242
72. Rodreguez King-Dorset, “Suspending Disbelief: Black Theatre
and British Plays” (2014) ..................................................................................... 246
73. Dominic Hingorani, “The Journey to the West Trilogy” (2006) .......................... 249
74. Pnina Werbner, “Agonistic Moral Panics: The Satanic Verses” (1997) ............ 252
75. Salman Rushdie, “Joseph Anton” (2012) .......................................................... 253
76. Hazel V. Carby, “White Woman Listen! Black Feminism
and the Boundaries of Sisterhood” (1982) ........................................................ 257
77. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, “For Muslim Women Life Had Been
Getting Better. No Longer.” (2016) ................................................................... 258
78. Lynette Goddard, “Social Issues and Social Debates
in Contemporary Theatre” (2015) ...................................................................... 261
79. Susheila Nasta, “‘Home’ and Diaspora” (2002) .............................................. 265
80. John McLeod, “Fantasy Relationships: Black British Canons
in a Transnational World” (2006) ....................................................................... 269

Further Reading ................................................................................................................. 275

Index ..................................................................................................................................... 283