{"product_id":"the-oxford-english-literary-history-bruce-king-9780199288366","title":"The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 13: 1948-2000: The Internationalization of English Literature","description":"The \u003cem\u003eOxford English Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the future will there be a literary history of England, or will it be an English-language literary history? This important volume in the new \u003cem\u003eOxford English Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e covers colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers since 1948. After the wave of decolonization following World War II and the growth of large immigrant communities in England, Bruce King asks the questions: Can we still talk of the English nation as a cultural unit? What does it mean to be British, English, or national? In his broad-ranging discussion, he covers such topics as Black British Poetry and Drama, Commonwealth Literature, and British African Literature, and looks in depth at writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKing writes from the conviction that it is wrong to assume that national cultures are finished. As he lucidly and persuasively demonstrates, a large, accomplished, socially significant body of writing in England sits between and overlaps with an older British tradition and its various sub-divisions, new national literatures, a post-imperial Commonwealth tradition, and contemporary global literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199288364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199288366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 6.96w x 0.84d","brand":"Bruce King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742238978303,"sku":"9780199288366","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-oxford-english-literary-history-bruce-king-9780199288366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}