Suzanne Scafe

Beverley Bryan

Stella Dadzie

Black Women's Lives in Britain

The Heart of the Race

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 they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. This new edition includes an introduction by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication, and its continuing relevance today.

Heart of the Race

A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain The 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 they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication and its continuing relevance today.

Heart Of The Race

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 thematic engagement with the worlds of their readers and the worlds the texts themselves construct. Each chapter examines themes such as freedom and agency, moral understanding, and history, while also exploring issues of importance to the contemporary period such as well-being, success, and achievement. Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women's Writing covers a broad range of texts including the work of internationally acclaimed writers such as Nadifa Mohamed, Zadie Smith, Diana Evans and Buchi Emecheta, as well as work by much less well-known writers such as Jacqueline Walker, Yvvette Edwards, and Jacqueline Roy.

Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing

Reading to Resist

Joan Anim-Addo

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. African Studies. This book engages with ways in which knowledge representing the black body, whether through film, ethnography, fashion, history, anthropological study or indeed literature, might be both encountered and countered. This landmark collection shifts spatially through a range of countries in present day westernEurope to interrogate the widespread assumption that the black body is already known, whether as primitive or neo-primitive, silenced or riotous The volume constructs a dialogue that is at once interracial as well as international, and which speaks at times consciously from the figuratively `black/white/yellow' body/bodies highlighted in the title. Collaborativelyresearched and strongly argued, this collection will interest a wide readership of historians, anthropologists, and scholars working on new literatures, film, feminism, translation studies, cultural studies and European studies. Contributors include: Tomi Adeaga, Anyaa Anim-Addo, Joan Anim-Addo, Heidi Bojsen, Christine Checinska, Giovanna Covi, Raimi Gbadamosi, Viv Golding, Serena Guarracino, Gloria Maestripieri Laurie McIntosh, Midori Saito, and Suzanne Scafe. Joan Anim-Addo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Caribbean Studies Centre, Goldsmiths, University ofLondon. Suzanne Scafe is Senior lecturer in English Studies at London South Bank University.

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