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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tracy J Prince |
ISBN: | 9780786462940 0786462949 |
OCLC Number: | 791643140 |
Description: | vii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / by Thomas C. Caramagno -- Preface -- Introduction : mind the gap -- The imploded empire : literary reactions to Britain's changed empire -- The difficulty defining British literature -- The difficulty defining "Black British" -- Two nations : class issues in contemporary British literature -- British Jewish writers -- Xenophobia and the Booker Prize -- Britain's "new" multicultural identity -- Appendix I : Man Booker Prize winners -- Appendix II : international Man Booker Prize winners -- Appendix III : Orange Prize winners. |
Responsibility: | Tracy J. Prince ; foreword by Thomas C. Caramagno. |
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"Tracy Prince's book brings an impressive set of voices into dialogue on the complexity of community-building and national identity--analyzing important aspects of British culture which are not fully represented in anthologies or literary histories." -R. Victoria Arana, Professor of English, Howard University "Writing with great lucidity and welcome originality, Tracy J. Prince explores how an increasingly multicultural Britain defines itself, and is defined, through literature and a literary establishment still dominated by an Anglo-English elite." -Tamar Heller, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati Read more...


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