Narrative Projections of a Black British History

Name: Narrative Projections of a Black British History
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By: Eva Ulrike Pirker

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Paperback | 14 October 2024

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336 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24

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Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what sort of narratives have emerged from, and in turn determine, key events (such as the iconic 'Windrush' moment) and developments and provides basic insights into theoretical frameworks. It also offers a large number of comparative readings, considering both 'factual' and 'fictional' forms of representation such as history books, documentary films, life writing, novels, and drama, and identifies main strands, 'official' narratives and countercurrents. Part II embarks on close readings and analyses of a selection of narratives that can be classed as reactions to the 'established' historical culture. Overall, the book draws attention to collective currents and individual positions, affirmative and critical approaches: Together, they form a representative image of a specific moment in the ongoing debate about a black British history.

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"Narrative Projections of a Black British History provides a unique and useful addition to what its author acknowledges is now a 'thriving field' of historical scholarship on black inhabitants of the UK...It offers a thorough study of contemporary historiography while vividly illustrating the struggle between rising public interest in black Britons and their active exclusion from historical accounts...the book as a whole is an ambitious and valuable contribution to the field it seeks to analyse." - Malachi MacIntosh, Wasafiri

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