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Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and the (Re)Construction of Racial Identity
by Dave Gunning
Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing & Culture 28.1 (2007), 70-81. [ISSN: 01065734]
Claude McKay, Eric Walrond and the Locations of Black Internationalism
by Dave Gunning
in The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives ed. by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt and Emma Smith (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2011), pp. 141-54 [ISBN: 9781845231262]
Caribbean Modernism
by Dave Gunning
in The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, ed. by Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gasiorek, Deborah Longworth, and Andrew Thacker (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press: 2010), pp. 910-25. [ISBN: 9780199545445]
History, Anthropology, Necromancy: Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land
by Dave Gunning
in Postcolonial Ghosts (Les Carnets du Cerpac 8), ed. by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain and Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2009), pp. 305-321 [ISBN: 9782842698850]
Cultural Conservatism and the Sites of Transformation in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee
by Dave Gunning
in British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary, ed. by Neil Murphy and Wai-chew Sim (Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press, 2008), pp. 119-139
Cosmopolitanism and Marginalisation in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe
by Dave Gunning
in Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature, ed. by Kadija Sesay (London: Hansib, 2005), pp. 165-178 [ISBN: 9781870518063]
Ethnicity Politics in Contemporary Black British and British Asian Literature
by Dave Gunning
in Racism, Slavery, and Literature, ed. by Wolfgang Zach and Ulrich Pallua (Frankfurt: Peter Lang: 2010), pp. 47-59 [ISBN: 9783631590454]
S. I. Martin’s Incomparable World and the Possibilities for Black British Historical Fiction
by Dave Gunning
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43.2 (2007), 203-215 [ISSN: 17449855]
In his 1996 novel Incomparable World, S.I. Martin expresses dissatisfaction with the historiographical representation... more In his 1996 novel Incomparable World, S.I. Martin expresses dissatisfaction with the historiographical representation of 18th‐century black Britain. Through his insistence on the fictionality of the characters he situates within a recognizable London of the 1790s, Martin is able to insist on the centrality of black involvement in British affairs without reducing actual black individuals and communities to mere ciphers within an instrumental anti‐racist political register.
Editorial: Tracing Black America in Black British Culture
by Dave Gunning
With Abigail Ward.
Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives 6.2 (2009), 149-158 [ISSN 14788810]
Infrahuman Rights, Silence, and the Possibility of Communication in Recent Narratives of Illegality in Britain
by Dave Gunning
in Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures ed. by Shaul Bassi and Annalisa Oboe (London and New York: Routledge: 2011), pp. 141-50. [ISBN: 9780415591928]
Reading the 'Uncle Tom' Character in Fred D'Aguiar's The Longest Memory
by Dave Gunning
in Revisiting Slave Narratives (Les Carnets du Cerpac 2), ed. by Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier: Services des Publications, 2005), pp. 295-310 [ISBN: 9782842696484]