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  • Reading to Resist

    Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing

    by Suzanne Scafe ...
    Series series Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice
    This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated.Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women's Writing undertakes a close, innovative reading of the novels selected, one that focuses on the texts’ aesthetics as well as their ... Read more

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  • The Heart of the Race

    Black Women's Lives in Britain

    Series series Feminist Classics
    A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in BritainThe Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles ... Read more

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  • African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora

    Edited by Suzanne Scafe, Leith Dunn ...
    This anthology originated as papers presented at a conference held in London, July 2018, entitled "Caribbean Women (Post) Diaspora: African-Caribbean Interconnections".The chapters focus on issues of women’s agency and on the potential for transformation produced by the experience of migration and the networks and communities fashioned by African-Caribbean women in diasporic spaces. They cover a ... Read more

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  • Children's Literature

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    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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  • Beginning postcolonialism

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  • Black on Both Sides

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    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

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    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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