2019/12/19 by Nasta, Susheila 1953-, Stein, Mark U. 1966- · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Australian History and Society
paper · doi:10.1017/9781108164146
openalex publication_date 2019/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.