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020			_a9780198184287 (hbk)
020			_a019818428X (hbk)
020			_z978199288366 (pbk)
020			_a9780199288366 (pbk)
020			_a0199288364 (pbk.)
035			_a(UkLCURL)o10003685388
035			_a(OCoLC)55039632
040			_aBOS _cBOS _dDLC _dBD-DhEWU _beng
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050		4	_aPR120.M55 K57 2004
082	0	4	_a820.9 _bKII 2004
100	1		_aKing, Bruce, _d1933-. _915615
245	1	4	_aThe internationalization of English literature / _cBruce King.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2004.
300			_axii, 386 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographies (p. 326-367) and index.
505			_tTOC _a1. 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.
520			_a"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.
526			_aEnglish
590			_aSagar Shahanawaz
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xMinority authors _xHistory and criticism. _915616
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _915617
650		0	_aImmigrants' writings, English _xHistory and criticism. _915618
650		0	_aImmigrants _zGreat Britain _xIntellectual life. _915619
650		0	_aPostcolonialism _zGreat Britain. _915620
650		0	_aMulticulturalism in literature. _915621
650		0	_aDecolonization in literature. _913957
650		0	_aEthnic groups in literature. _915622
650		0	_aImmigrants in literature. _915623
650		0	_aMinorities in literature. _915624
830		0	_aOxford English literary history ; _915614
856	4	2	_3WorldCat details _uhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/internationalization-of-english-literature/oclc/55039632&referer=brief_results
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