TY - BOOK AU - Dawson,Ashley ED - Project Muse. TI - Mongrel Nation : : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / SN - 9780472900978 AV - PR120.M55 D39 2007 U1 - 820.9/3552 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Ethnic groups KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Postcolonialism KW - Literature and society KW - Minorities in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - History and criticism KW - English literature KW - Minority authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-219) and index; Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/7061/ ER -