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This is a complex, multilayered work that brings together two Irish
priests, a journalist who is a frequenter of prostitutes, a Hindu
shopkeeper and a Dickensian array of minor characters in an
exploration of sexual squalor and spiritual redemption.
'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the
experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of
the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971
Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the
Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story
of the Windrush Generation is more widely known than ever. But is
it the whole story? Through a series of biographical essays, poems
and articles, The Other Windrush shines a light on the hidden
history of a 'minority within a minority': Caribbean migrants of
Indian and Chinese descent - often the descendants of indentured
labourers - who were the 'invisible passengers' of the Windrush
generation. Both highlighting the diversity of their lives and
cultural backgrounds, and delving into the largely forgotten
history of the system of indenture in the British Caribbean, The
Other Windrush makes a unique addition to the literature on
migration and the British Empire.
'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the
experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of
the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971
Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the
Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story
of the Windrush Generation is more widely known than ever. But is
it the whole story? Through a series of biographical essays, poems
and articles, The Other Windrush shines a light on the hidden
history of a 'minority within a minority': Caribbean migrants of
Indian and Chinese descent - often the descendants of indentured
labourers - who were the 'invisible passengers' of the Windrush
generation. Both highlighting the diversity of their lives and
cultural backgrounds, and delving into the largely forgotten
history of the system of indenture in the British Caribbean, The
Other Windrush makes a unique addition to the literature on
migration and the British Empire.
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Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
The young narrator of "The Intended" is twelve when he leaves his
village in rural Guyana to come to England. There, he is abandoned
into social care, but with great determination and self-discipline
seizes every opportunity to follow his aunt's farewell advice, 'but
you must take education...pass plenty exam' and wins a scholarship
to Oxford. With an upper-class white fiancee, he has unquestionably
arrived, but at the cost of ignoring the other part of his aunt's
farewell: '...you is we, remember you is we.' Through remembering
his Guyanese childhood and youth in working class Balham, the
narrator's older self explores the contradictions, the difficulties
implicit in his aunt's advice and the cost to his personality of
losing that past. At one level a moving semi-autobiographical
novel, "The Intended" is also a sophisticated postcolonial text
with its echoes of 'Heart of Darkness', its play between language
registers and its exploration of the instability of identity. As an
Indo-Guyanese, the narrator finds himself seen as 'Paki' by the
English, and as some mongrel hybrid by 'real' Asians from India and
Pakistan; as sharing a common British 'Blackness', yet acutely
conscious of the real cultural divisions between Guyanese of
African and Indian origins.
A young Afro-Guyanese engineer comes to a coastal Kentish village
as part of a project to shore up its sea-defences. He boards with
an old English woman, Mrs Rutherford, and through his relationship
with her discovers the latent violence and raw emotions present in
this apparently placid village. He discovers, too, that underlying
the village's essential Englishness, echoes of the imperial past
resound. In the process, he is forced to reconsider his perceptions
of himself and his native Guyana, and in particular to question his
engineer's certainties in the primacy of the empirical and the
rational. This is a richly intertextual novel which uses reference
to the novels of Conrad, Wilson Harris and V.S. Naipaul's 'The
Enigma of Arrival' to set up a multi-layered dialogue concerning
the nature of Englishness, the legacy of Empire and different
perspectives on the nature of history and reality.
"Slave Song" is unquestionably one of the most important
collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry to have been
published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in
1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen
as a provocative and paradigm-shifting writer. At the heart of
"Slave Song" are the voices of African slaves and Indian labourers
expressing, in a Guyanese Creole that is as far removed from
Standard English as it is possible to get, their songs of defiance,
of a thwarted erotic energy. But surrounding this harsh and lyrical
core of Creole expression is an elaborate critical apparatus of
translations (which deliberately reveal the actual
untranslatability of the Creole) and a parody of the kind of
critical commentary that does no more than paraphrase or at best
contextualise the original poem. It took some time for the
displaced critics to recognise that this prosaic apparatus was as
much part of the meaning of the whole as the poems themselves, that
Dabydeen was engaged in a play of masks, an expression of his own
duality and a critique of the relationship which is at the core of
Caribbean writing: that between the articulate writer and the
supposedly voiceless workers and peasants. This new edition has an
afterword by David Dabydeen that briefly explores his response to
these poems after more than twenty years.
Set in the nineteenth century, "The Counting House" narrates the
experiences of an Indian couple, Rohinia and Vidia, growing up and
getting married in a small Indian village before setting off for a
new life in colonial Guyana, seduced by tales of the promised land
and the riches they will find there. However, instead of fertile
fields and instant wealth they find they have been sold into
slavery. Having abandoned their families, their culture, and a
country that seems increasingly like a paradise, Rohini and Vidia
learn how to live with themselves, whose hopes end in tragedy. The
story illuminates historical tensions between indentured Indian
workers and Guyanese of African descent.
A collection of essays, poems and prose by leading Indo-Caribbean
scholars and writers on East Indian history and culture in the
Caribbean.
The Oxford Companion to Black British History is an essential
reference for anyone who wants to understand the long and
fascinating history of black people in Britain from classical times
to the present day. It brings together a unique collection of
articles that provide an overview of the black presence in Britain,
and the rich and diverse contribution made to British society. The
A-Z guide includes entries for landmark figures, key events,
concepts (such as Emancipation and Reparations), and historical
accounts. Subject areas include medicine, military history, art,
music, sports, and education. Entries range from the African
auxiliaries stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the second century A.D.,
through John Edmonstone, who taught taxidermy to Charles Darwin,
Mary Seacole, the "Black Florence Nightingale," and Walter Tull, a
professional soccer player and First World War officer. The guide
will be of tremendous interest to those involved in commenting on
subjects relating to the Black British community, or anyone
interested in finding out about the history of expatriated Africans
outside the Americas.
Features:
First ever reference book to explore the fullhistory of black
people in Britain
Detailed timeline charts key dates for people and events from the
2nd century AD to the 21st century
Edited by David Dabydeen, prize-winning novelist and respected
academic, together with John Gilmore and Cecily Jones
Over 400 entries written by more than 100 specialists under the
direction of Professor Dabydeen, his colleagues, and a
distinguished team of advisers
Extracts from the work of 19 Afro-British, Black American, and
Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain during the period. They
are drawn from autobiographies, slave narratives, unpublished
letters, oral accounts, and public records. Includes a general
introduction and an introduction to each writer.
A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrateand a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity. He refuses however to supply parade of grievances, and to give a simplistic account of beatings, sexual abuses, etc. He will not embark upon yet another fictional journey into the dark nature of slavery for the voyeuristic delight of the English reader. Instead, the old man ties the reader up in knots as deftly as a harlot her client: he spins a tale of myths, half-truths and fantasies; recreating Africa and eighteenth-century London in startlingly poetic ways. What matters to him is the odyssey into poetry, the rich texture of his narrative, notits truthfulness. In this, his fourth novel, David Dabydeen opens up history to myriad imaginary interpretations, repopulating a vanished world with a strange, defiantly vivid and compassionate humanity.
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