Before Windrush

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'Before Windrush breaks significantly new ground in the focus it gives to Asian writers in multicultural British literature before 1948. Placing these voices into constructive relationships and conversations with Afro-Caribbean literary figures verifies their indivisibility from an often exclusionary canon. The writing is lucid and concise, the critical lenses sharp and revealing. This anthology fills a long neglected space in our scholarship and teaching.'Keith Sandiford, Author, Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English WritingLouisiana State University'An eloquent and compelling reframing of the life and history of "Black" Britons before 1948, Before Windrush provides a rare yet essential overview of the Asian, South Asian, Caribbean and African writers' engagements and contributions to both British and world history. Boasting an impressive survey of topics, ethnicities and eras, from reevaluations of canonical texts to intrepid, new analyses of largely overlooked writers and minority British communities, this volume brings lost conversations and undiscovered material back into British and postcolonial literary studies.....There is no better place to either start or further expand one's knowledge of Black British literature, culture and thought-in all of its manifestations.'Michelle M. Wright, Author, Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African DiasporaUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities