Reading list: British Literature and Identity
The following is a list of books and articles that will be useful to those seeking to delve deeper into the themes, concerns and techniques of contemporary Black and Asian British writing.
| Ian Baucom, Out of Place (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). |
| Timothy Brennan, Salman Rushdie and the Third World (London: Macmillan, 1989). |
| Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall, eds, Literature of an Independent England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). |
| Simon Gikandi, ‘Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality’, The South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 627–53. |
| Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz, eds, End of Empire and the English Novel (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011). |
| Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (London: Routledge, 2002). |
| –––, Postcolonial Melancholia (New York: Columbia University Press/London: Routledge, 2005). |
| Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland, eds, Race, Nation and Empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). |
| Bruce King, The Internationalization of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). |
| Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar, Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007). |
| John McLeod, Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (London and New York: Routledge, 2004). |
| Susheila Nasta, Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001). |
| Deirdre Osborne, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). |