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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000539499707536

Titolo

Other Britain, other British : contemporary multicultural fiction / edited by A. Robert Lee.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Haven, Conn. : Pluto Press, 1995

ISBN

0745306454 (hb)

Descrizione fisica

200 p. 23 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Lee, A. Robert, 1941-

Disciplina

823/.91408

Soggetti

Decolonizzazione nella letteratura

Multiculturalismo

Narrativa inglese - Autori minori - Storia e critica

Letteratura e società - Gran Bretagna - Storia

Scrittori neri - Commonwealth britannico - Saggi

Immigrati nella letteratura

English fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - History

Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism

English fiction - Black authors - History and criticism

English fiction - History and criticism

Ethnic groups - Great Britain - History

Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature

Decolonization in literature

Immigrants in literature

Minorities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / A. Robert Lee -- 1. Displacement and Transformation in The Enigma of Arrival and The Satanic Verses / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- 2. Wintering: Making a Home in Britain / C. L. Innes -- 3. The Disturbing Vision of George Lamming / Louis James -- 4. Setting Up Home in a City of Words: Sam Selvon's London Novels / Susheila Nasta -- 5. Changing The Script: Sex, Lies and Videotapes in Hanif Kureishi,



David Dabydeen and Mike Phillips / A. Robert Lee -- 6. New Nations, New Selves: The Novels of Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro / Laura Hall -- 7. Long Day's Journey: The Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah / A. Robert Lee -- 8. Negotiating the Self: Jewish Fiction in Britain Since 1945 / Michael Woolf -- 9. 'Lancelot's Position': The Fiction of Irish-Britain / Eamonn Hughes -- 10. 'In Search of the Lost Tribe': Janet Frame's England / Rod Edmond -- 11. England from the Antipodes: Images of England in Australian Fiction, 1960-88 / Gay Raines.