Extravagant strangers : a literature of belonging / edited by Caryl Phillips
1997, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Dust-wrapper slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465370
ISBN: 0571190863
Physical description; xvi, 315 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; The Shortcomings of Christian England [1770] / Ukawsaw Gronniosaw -- Letter to Mr Sterne [1776] / Ignatius Sancho -- Voyage to England [1789] / Olaudah Equiano -- A Word about Dinners [1846] / William Thackeray -- From The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' [1897] / Joseph Conrad -- The English Flag [1891] / Rudyard Kipling -- Letter to David Kahma [1947]; Letter to Geoffrey Stone [1948]; Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson [1948] / Wyndham Lewis -- Letter to Henry Eliot [1914]; Letter to Eleanor Hinkley [1914] / T. S. Eliot -- The Tiredness of Rosabel [1924] / Katherine Mansfield -- First Steps [1979] / Jean Rhys -- Bloomsbury: An Encounter with Edith Sitwell [1932] / C. L. R. James -- Confessions of a Down and Out [1933] / George Orwell -- From Choice of Straws [1965] / E. R. Braithwaite -- London at Night [1969] / Lawrence Durrell -- In Defence of the Underground [1987] / Doris Lessing -- From The Angel at the Gate [1982] / Wilson Harris -- From The Lonely Londoners [1956] / Samuel Selvon -- 'From Lucy: Englan' Lady' [1982]; 'From Lucy: Carnival Wedd'n', 1981' [1982] / James Berry -- From Three Continents [1987] / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- A Voyage [1954] / George Lamming -- An Ingrate's England [1989] / Peter Porter -- First Impressions of London [1993] / J. G. Ballard -- From Little Eden: A Child at War [1978] / Eva Figes -- The Journey [1987] / V. S. Naipaul -- From Oleander, Jacaranda [1994] / Penelope Lively -- From Bye-Bye, Blackbird [1971] / Anita Desai -- From Darkest England [1996] / Christopher Hope -- Living in Earl's Court [1984] / Shiva Naipaul -- A General Election [1983] / Salman Rushdie -- From Pilgrim's Way [1988] / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- The Child I Never Was [1986] Assassins [1983] / George Szirtes -- From Sour Sweet [1982] / Timothy Mo -- Fly Away Home [1997] / William Boyd -- Inglan is a Bitch [1980] / Linton Kwesi Johnson -- From Reef [1994] / Romesh Gunesekera -- From the Remains of the Day [1989] / Kazuo Ishiguro -- London Taxi Driver [1988] / David Dabydeen -- The Machine That Cried [1986] / Michael Hofmann -- Disparities [1986] / Ben Okri. Subjects; Geschichte. 1900-1999. English literature Foreign authors. English literature. English literature. English literature Black authors. Black people in literature. English literature Minority authors. Minorities in literature. English literature Collections of. Ethnic groups ; Literary collections. Immigrants ; Literary collections. Minorities ; Literary collections. Immigrants' writings, English. Commonwealth literature (English),. Blacks in literature.
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