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- catalog abstract ""This collection of original essays brings together the distilled experiences of fourteen very different writers from the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. All started life in the former colonies and have either spent extended periods in Britain or settled here - and all have enriched its literature with new themes and ways of seeing, expressed with an exuberant use of language. Their accounts - reflective, anecdotal, autobiographical - of their very different cultural journeys and of how living in Britain has influenced their writing create a rich medley of voices."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11991329.
- catalog contributor b11991330.
- catalog contributor b11991331.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This collection of original essays brings together the distilled experiences of fourteen very different writers from the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. All started life in the former colonies and have either spent extended periods in Britain or settled here - and all have enriched its literature with new themes and ways of seeing, expressed with an exuberant use of language. Their accounts - reflective, anecdotal, autobiographical - of their very different cultural journeys and of how living in Britain has influenced their writing create a rich medley of voices."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Preface / Ferdinand Dennis, Naseem Khan -- Introduction / Naseem Khan -- Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs / E.A. Markham -- Deep Roots, New Language / Attia Hosain -- Waltzing Across Four and a Half Decades / B.A. Gilroy -- Journeys without Maps / Ferdinand Dennis -- Becoming a Caribbean Man / John Figueroa -- West Indian Writers in Britain / David Dabydeen -- A Writer in Exile / Mulk Raj Anand -- Changes of Scenery / Dom Moraes -- Crossing Boundaries / Buchi Emecheta -- In Search of a Talisman / Rukhsana Ahmad -- Liars, Hypocrites, Imperialists and Sages / G.V. Desani -- The Vernacular Cosmopolitan / Homi Bhabha -- Ancestors I Carry / James Berry -- Speaking in Tongues / Farrukh Dhondy -- Afterword / Nirad Chaudhuri.".
- catalog extent "vii, 179 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Voices of the crossing.".
- catalog identifier "1852425830".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voices of the crossing.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Serpent's Tail,".
- catalog relation "Voices of the crossing.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.98 21".
- catalog subject "Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Commonwealth literature (English)".
- catalog subject "Emigration and immigration in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Foreign authors Biography.".
- catalog subject "English literature Foreign authors.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Minority authors History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups Great Britain Literary collections.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups in literature.".
- catalog subject "Great Britain Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants in literature.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants' writings, English History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PR9085 .V65 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Ferdinand Dennis, Naseem Khan -- Introduction / Naseem Khan -- Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs / E.A. Markham -- Deep Roots, New Language / Attia Hosain -- Waltzing Across Four and a Half Decades / B.A. Gilroy -- Journeys without Maps / Ferdinand Dennis -- Becoming a Caribbean Man / John Figueroa -- West Indian Writers in Britain / David Dabydeen -- A Writer in Exile / Mulk Raj Anand -- Changes of Scenery / Dom Moraes -- Crossing Boundaries / Buchi Emecheta -- In Search of a Talisman / Rukhsana Ahmad -- Liars, Hypocrites, Imperialists and Sages / G.V. Desani -- The Vernacular Cosmopolitan / Homi Bhabha -- Ancestors I Carry / James Berry -- Speaking in Tongues / Farrukh Dhondy -- Afterword / Nirad Chaudhuri.".
- catalog title "Voices of the crossing : the impact of Britain on writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa / edited by Ferdinand Dennis and Naseem Khan.".
- catalog type "text".