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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.
From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was
being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of
today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and
Asian people from the 17th-century until today. 'London Calling'
tells the story of black and Asian literary London, tracing the
escapades, fortune making, and self-expansion of these forgotten
writers. It is a joyful and often rapturous work, a love letter to
the capital, a teeming and complex mix of social and cultural
history seen through the imagination and experience of great black
and Asian writers. 'London Calling' gets to the heart of the
immigration impulse, and evokes the dreams and adventures of those
who have sought refuge and asylum in the cradle of Empire. The book
is populated by runaway slaves, lotharios, imams, boxer-pimps,
rajahs and colonial revolutionaries, and discusses writers as
diverse in style and time as the 18th-century grocer-aesthete
Ignatius Sancho right through to Rushdie, Kureishi and yardie
chronicler Victor Headley. The result is an exciting work, brimming
with life, as it spotlights a rich but neglected literary
tradition, and brings to life a gaping void in the city's history.
Placing the multiculturalism of today's capital in its historical
context, Sukhdev Sandhu shows that it is no new phenomenon, and
that just as London has been the making of many black writers, they
too have been the making of London.
Articles on the historical, social and political realities of
postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing. Contemporary
postcolonial studies represent a controversial area of debate. This
collection seeks a more pragmatic approach to the subject, taking
into account its historical, social and political realities, rather
than ignoring aconsideration of material conditions. The
contributors look at the oppositional power held and exercised by
anti-colonial movements, a neglected topic; address the literary
strategies devised by metropolitan writers to contain the
insecurities of empire, given that unrest and opposition were
integral to British imperialism; contest the charges of nativism
and essentialism made by postcolonial critics against liberation
writings; and investigate the voicesof both inhabitants of
post-independence nation states, and those scattered by colonialism
itself. Dr LAURA CHRISMAN teaches at Sussex University; BENITA
PARRY is Honorary Professor at Warwick University. Contributors:
Vilashini Cooppan, Fernando Coronil, Gautam Premnath, Ato Quayson,
Tim Watson, Lawrence Phillips, Sukhdev Sandhu
Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling,
comic, stream-of-consciousness story of four young Black men coming
of age among the raves and Jungle music scene in London during the
1990s. Layered with poetic verse, prose and humour, this cult
classic of underground British fiction documents the rollercoaster
ride of a weekend spent raving during Jungle's cultural takeover in
the summer of 1994. Jungle, with its booming basslines and Jamaican
patois, burst from the pirate radio stations and mixtapes into
cavernous clubs, pulling a generation of Black British ravers with
it. Originally written as a way to document street culture as it
became a feature of London, charting a time when working-class
kids, both Black and white, merged to dance as "one family",
Junglist is both a testament to Black British sound system culture
and a rawthentic account of inner-city life.
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless
orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after
dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new
provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find
out whether the London night really has been rendered insipid by
street lighting and CCTV. Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery
and romance of the city-to revitalize the great myth of London for
a new century.
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