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WRITING HOME - BLACK WRITING IN BRITAIN SINCE T...

When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the
Caribbean  it marked the beginning of the post-war migrations to Britain that would form part
of modern  multicultural Britain. A significant role in this social transformation would be
played by the literary and non-literary output of writers from the Caribbean. These writers in
exile were responsible not just for the establishment of the West Indian novel  but  by virtue
of their location in the Mother Country  were also the pioneers of black writing in Britain.
Over the next fifty years  this writing would come to represent an important body of work
intimately aligned to the evolving and contentious notions of home as economic migration became
a permanent presence.In this book  David Ellis provides in-depth analyses of six key figures
whose writing charts the establishment of black Britain. For Sam Selvon  George Lamming and E.
R. Braithwaite  writing home represents a literature of reappraisal as the myths of empire the
gold-paved streets of London conflict with the harsh realities of being designated an
immigrant. The unresolved consequences of this reappraisal are made evident in the works of
Andrew Salkey  Wilson Harris and Linton Kwesi Johnson where radicalism in both political and
literary terms can be read as a response to the rejection of the black communities by an
increasingly divided Britain in the 1970s. Finally  the novels of Caryl Phillips  Joan Riley
and David Dabydeen mark an increasingly reflective literature as the notion of home shifts more
explicitly from the Caribbean to Britain itself.Containing both contextual and biographical
information throughout  Writing Home represents a literary and social history of the emergence
of black Britain in the second

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