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Mongrel nation [electronic resource] : diasporic culture and the making of postcolonial Britain /

by Dawson, Ashley; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007Description: viii, 226 p.ISBN: ; ; ; .Subject(s): English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism | Postcolonialism in literature | Immigrants in literature | Minorities in literature | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Postcolonialism -- Great Britain | Cultural pluralism -- Great Britain | Ethnic groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-219) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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