Synopses & Reviews
This is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years.
Review
"This accessible book is an ideal introduction to the field. Essential." Choice"A major contribution...Innes' book is the first sustained study of Black and Asian writing in Britain over three centuries. Invaluable." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Review
"This accessible book is an ideal introduction to the field. Essential." Choice"A major contribution...Innes' book is the first sustained study of Black and Asian writing in Britain over three centuries. Invaluable." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Review
"This accessible book is an ideal introduction to the field. Essential." Choice
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.
Table of Contents
'Chronological table of historical and literary events; List of illustrations; Introduction; Interchapter: first encounters; 1. Eighteenth-century letters and narratives: Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Dean Mahomed; 2. Speaking truth for freedom and justice: Mary Prince and Robert Wedderburn; Interchapter: the imperial century; 3. Querying race, gender and genre: nineteenth-century narratives of escape; 4. Travellers and Reformers: Mary Seacole and B. M. Malabari; 5. Connecting cultures: Cornelia and Alice Sorabji; Interchapter: ending empire; 6. Duse Mohamed Ali, anti-imperial journals, and black and Asian publishing; 7. Subaltern voices and the construction of a global culture; 8. Epilogue; Notes to chapters; Notes on writers; Bibliography.\n
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