Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain Book

Contents

Colonization in Reverse An Introduction....................1
1 "In the Big City the Sex Life Gone Wild" Migration, Gender, and Identity in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners....................27
2 Black Power in a Transnational Frame Radical Populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement....................49
3 Behind the Mask Carnival Politics and British Identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry....................73
4 Beyond Imperial Feminism Buchi Emecheta's London Novels and Black British Women's Emancipation....................95
5 Heritage Politics of the Soul Immigration and Identity in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses....................121
6 Genetics, Biotechnology, and the Future of "Race" in Zadie Smith's White Teeth....................149
Conclusion: "Step Back from the Blow Back" Asian Hip-Hop and Post-9/11 Britain....................175
Notes....................189
Index....................221