Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

by Ashley Dawson and Dashka Slater

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472069918
• ISBN13: 9780472069910
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"