This collection of essays provides an imaginative international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English literature, and presents theoretically sophisticated and practical strategies for doing so. It offers a pedagogical, pragmatic and ideological introduction to the field for those without background, and an integrated body of current and stimulating essays for those who are already knowledgeable.

Introduction--R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey * Narrating the Africanist Presence in the Early Modern Survey of English Literature--Ann Kelly * Sea Change: Historicizing the Scholarly Study of Black British Writing--R. Victoria Arana * The Politics of Teaching Black and British--Maria Helena Lima * The Evolution of Black London--Judith Bryan * Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Black British Writing--Chris Weedon * Transformations within the Black British Novel--Kadija George Sesay * Contemporary Black British Poetry--Lauri Ramey * The Socio-Politics of Black Britain in the Work of Buchi Emecheta--Susan Yearwood * Deterritorialization, Black British Writers, and the Case of Ben Okri--Jude Chudi Okpala * The Black Man and the Dark Lady: The Imaginary African in Early Modern and Modern British Writers--Alinda J. Sumers * A Black Briton's View of Black British Literature and Scholarship--Tracey Walters