The internationalization of English literature / Bruce King.

By: King, Bruce, 1933-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. Description: xii, 386 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780198184287 (hbk); 019818428X (hbk); 9780199288366 (pbk); 0199288364 (pbk.)Subject(s): English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Immigrants' writings, English -- History and criticism | Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life | Postcolonialism -- Great Britain | Multiculturalism in literature | Decolonization in literature | Ethnic groups in literature | Immigrants in literature | Minorities in literatureDDC classification: 820.9 LOC classification: PR120.M55 K57 2004Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC 1. The End of Imperial England and the Seeds of the New: 1948-1969. -- I. New Immigrants -- II. Prose: Culture Conflict and Lonely Londoners -- III. Poetry: Swan Songs, Birds of Passage -- IV. Drama: West Indian Social Realists -- 2. Transformations: 1970-1979 -- I. Ethnicity and the Myth of Revolution -- II. Prose: Some Firsts -- III. Poetry: Black Modernists -- IV. Drama: West Indian Playwrights and Black Lives -- 3. Fragmentation and Internationalization: 1980-1989 -- I. Demanding Rights -- II. Prose: From Exotic to British, Almost -- III. Poetry: Performance and Dialect -- IV. Drama: Black, Black Feminist, and Asian Brecht -- 4. England's New English Literature: 1990-2000 -- I. Celebrating Multiracial England -- II. Prose: Remapping England -- III. Poetry: Returning to the Page and the Self -- IV. Drama: Histories.

Summary: "In the future, what will 'English Literary History' mean? A literary history of England, or one with much looser boundaries, defined only by a communality of language, not by location or history? In this, the latest volume in the Oxford English Literary History, Bruce King discusses the literature written by those who have chosen to make England their home since 1948. With decolonization following World War II, and the growth of large immigrant communities in England, came a wave of colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers whose entry onto the British cultural landscape forces us to consider what it is to be British, English, or national now that England is multiracial and part of a global economy." "King addresses these new trends in English literature and the questions they raise in the first wide-ranging and comprehensive account of immigrant literature set in a social context. Ranging through Black and Asian British prose, poetry, and drama, and writers including V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith, King reveals the development of the literature from writing about immigration to becoming English. Now that the literature of England includes Sri Lankans, Egyptians, and British Nigerians, does this mean that we can no longer talk of the English nation as a cultural unit? King concludes persuasively that it does not. We have not seen the demise of national cultures; rather, a new, accomplished, and socially significant body of writing in England is influenced by the interaction between foreign cultures and British traditions. This bold and challenging account of British culture will shape debate for future generations. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU		820.9 KII (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Available		4344-15602
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	820.9 KII 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Not For Loan		15660

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Includes bibliographies (p. 326-367) and index.

TOC 1. The End of Imperial England and the Seeds of the New: 1948-1969. --
I. New Immigrants --
II. Prose: Culture Conflict and Lonely Londoners --
III. Poetry: Swan Songs, Birds of Passage --
IV. Drama: West Indian Social Realists --
2. Transformations: 1970-1979 --
I. Ethnicity and the Myth of Revolution --
II. Prose: Some Firsts --
III. Poetry: Black Modernists --
IV. Drama: West Indian Playwrights and Black Lives --
3. Fragmentation and Internationalization: 1980-1989 --
I. Demanding Rights --
II. Prose: From Exotic to British, Almost --
III. Poetry: Performance and Dialect --
IV. Drama: Black, Black Feminist, and Asian Brecht --
4. England's New English Literature: 1990-2000 --
I. Celebrating Multiracial England --
II. Prose: Remapping England --
III. Poetry: Returning to the Page and the Self --
IV. Drama: Histories.

"In the future, what will 'English Literary History' mean? A literary history of England, or one with much looser boundaries, defined only by a communality of language, not by location or history? In this, the latest volume in the Oxford English Literary History, Bruce King discusses the literature written by those who have chosen to make England their home since 1948. With decolonization following World War II, and the growth of large immigrant communities in England, came a wave of colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers whose entry onto the British cultural landscape forces us to consider what it is to be British, English, or national now that England is multiracial and part of a global economy." "King addresses these new trends in English literature and the questions they raise in the first wide-ranging and comprehensive account of immigrant literature set in a social context. Ranging through Black and Asian British prose, poetry, and drama, and writers including V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith, King reveals the development of the literature from writing about immigration to becoming English. Now that the literature of England includes Sri Lankans, Egyptians, and British Nigerians, does this mean that we can no longer talk of the English nation as a cultural unit? King concludes persuasively that it does not. We have not seen the demise of national cultures; rather, a new, accomplished, and socially significant body of writing in England is influenced by the interaction between foreign cultures and British traditions. This bold and challenging account of British culture will shape debate for future generations. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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