British Black and Asian Poetry
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This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Throughout, Omaar Hena demonstrates how these poets engage with urgent crises surrounding race and social inequality over the past fifty years, spanning policing and racial violence in the 1970s and 1980s, through poetry's cultural recognition in the 1990s and 2000s by museums, the 2012 London Olympics, the publishing scene, and awards and prizes, as well as continuing social realities of riots and uprisings. In dub poetry, dramatic monologues, ekphrasis, and lyric, Hena argues that British Black and Asian poets perform racial politics in conditions of spiraling crisis. Engaged and insightful, this book argues that poetry remains a vital art form in twenty-first-century global Britain. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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British Black and Asian Poetry
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Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
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British Black and Asian Poetry - Title page
pp v-v - Race, Aesthetics and Politics 1970–2023
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - Policing the Crisis, Sounding the Violence
pp 24-59 - Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Chapter 2 - Voices of Dissent
pp 60-97 - Valerie Bloom, Jean “Binta” Breeze, and Amryl Johnson
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Chapter 4 - Canons, Publishing, and Publics
pp 139-175 - Bernardine Evaristo, Lemn Sissay, and Daljit Nagra
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Chapter 5 - Surplus Lyric
pp 176-213 - Poetics of Riot in Bhanu Kapil and D. S. Marriott
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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