Mongrel Nation
Dawson, Ashley
Mongrel Nation Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / Ashley Dawson. - 1 online resource (243 p.)
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Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial studies.
9780472025053
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.
Mongrel Nation Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / Ashley Dawson. - 1 online resource (243 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial studies.
9780472025053
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.