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Write Black, Write British
From
Post Colonial to Black British Literature
(2005)
Edited
by
Kadija Sesay
price:
UK pounds £14.99
US dollars
$19.90
Paperback
384
pages
228 x 152mm
1 870518 06 3
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Write
Black, Write British examines the new Black British writers in Britain, born
in Britain, writing about Britain from a specific British perspective. This
collection of essays puts the work of British-born writers of African and
Caribbean parentage, who published first
collections in the late eighties and nineties, under a magnifying glass.
Themes of alienation, belonging, gender politics, identity, language,
madness, and race reverberate yet with a peculiar variance than that of post
colonial writers. Included are essays on Diran Adebayo, Patience Agbabi,
Jackie Kay, Andrea Levy, Leone Ross, Dorothea Smartt, Zadie Smith and
Benjamin Zephaniah.
This is book provides a rare opportunity to broaden the scope of a much
overlooked area of British literature.
Kadija Sesay is a literary activist, editor and publisher. A graduate of
Birmingham University, she co-edited IC3: The Penguin Book of Black
Writing in Britain and is the editor of Sable LitMag. |
