Kadija Sesay, ed., Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature

Who, what, why, and when is Black British Literature? Prabhu Guptara’s ground breaking Black British Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1986) included black, Indian, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Chinese, just about every non-European, non-white, author who lived or had lived in England including writers of popular fiction. Soon, however, the 1980s political alliance between black and ‘Asian’ (a term that few Indians or Pakistanis would normally use) fragmented as can be seen from the title of C..