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Narrative Projections of a Black British History
Langbeschreibung
This book analyses narratives that center on, construct, or comment on black British history. Outlining the emergence of black history in Britain and shifts in the politics of history, it principally focuses on recent narratives that engage critically with the historical culture surrounding black Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Black Britain's Historical Culture: Setting the Scene1. Introduction and Conceptual Reflections2. Representations of a Black History in Britain: An Overview of 'Factual' and 'Fictional' GenresPart II: Engaging with the Historical Culture: Reactions 3. Two Black British Lives: Charlotte Williams's Sugar and Slate and Mike Phillips's London Crossings4. Writing War - Writing Windrush: Andrea Levy's Novel Small Island5. Artistic Historiographies between the Black Atlantic and Black Britain: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and Foreigners6. Narratives Beyond TextsConclusion and Outlook
Eva Ulrike Pirker is a lecturer of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has published articles on literature, film and photography in the fields of postcolonial studies, migration studies and the emerging field of the study of historical culture, and has co-edited two volumes devoted to analyses of contemporary British culture (Multiethnic Britain 2000+ and Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture), but is interested in the mechanisms of cultural representation in the widest sense.
ISBN-13:
9780415893756
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.05.2011
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Eva Ulrike Pirker
Gewicht:
621 g
Format:
229x152x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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