Eva Ulrike Pirker

Narrative Projections of a Black British History (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses narratives that center on, construct, or comment on black British history. Outlining the emergence of black history in Britain and shifts in the politics of history, it principally focuses on recent narratives that engage critically with the historical culture surrounding black Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136682728
• Artikelnr.: 38271533

Autorenporträt

Eva Ulrike Pirker is a lecturer of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has published articles on literature, film and photography in the fields of postcolonial studies, migration studies and the emerging field of the study of historical culture, and has co-edited two volumes devoted to analyses of contemporary British culture (Multiethnic Britain 2000+ and Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture), but is interested in the mechanisms of cultural representation in the widest sense.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Black Britain's Historical Culture: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction and Conceptual Reflections
2. Representations of a Black History in Britain: An Overview of 'Factual'
and 'Fictional' Genres
Part II: Engaging with the Historical Culture: Reactions
3. Two Black British Lives: Charlotte Williams's Sugar and Slate and Mike
Phillips's London Crossings4. Writing War - Writing Windrush: Andrea Levy's
Novel Small Island5. Artistic Historiographies between the Black Atlantic
and Black Britain: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and Foreigners
6. Narratives Beyond Texts
Conclusion and Outlook