"Mongrel Nation" surveys the history of the United Kingdom's
African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present,
working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism,
and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past
fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie
Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary
definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural
expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the
postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics
such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational
politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation
immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial
studies. "Mongrel Nation" gives readers a broad landscape from
which to view the shifting currents of politics, literature, and
culture in postcolonial Britain. At a time when the contradictions
of expansionist braggadocio again dominate the world stage,
"Mongrel Nation" usefully illuminates the legacy of imperialism and
suggests that creative voices of resistance can never be
silenced.Dawson "Elegant, eloquent, and full of imaginative
insight, "Mongrel Nation" is a refreshing, engaged, and informative
addition to post-colonial and diasporic literary
scholarship."--Hazel V. Carby, Yale University "Eloquent and
strong, insightful and historically precise, lively and engaging,
"Mongrel Nation" is an expansive history of twentieth-century
internationalist encounters that provides a broader landscape from
which to understand currents, shifts, and historical junctures that
shaped the international postcolonial imagination."--May Joseph,
Pratt Institute Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at
the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the College
of Staten Island. He is coeditor of the forthcoming "Exceptional
State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism,"
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