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The richness of Black British literature 

Historicising the Field of Black British Literature: From the Romans to the 2000s

Evaristo, Bernardine. ​The Emperor’s Babe​ (London: Penguin, 2002)

Shakespeare, William ​Othello ​(1604) ANY EDITION.

Bandele, Biyi. ​Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (​ London: Amber Lane, 1999)

Anim-Addo, Joan. ​Imoinda, or, She who will lose her name : a play for twelve voices in three
acts .​ (London : Mango Publishing, 2008)

Martin, S.I. ​Incomparable World ​(London: Quartet, 1997)

Joseph, Paterson. ​Sancho: An Act of Remembrance ​(London: Oberon Books, 2011)

Levy, Andrea. ​The Long Song ​(London: Headline, 2011)

Smartt, Dorothea. ​Ship shape ​(Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 2008)

Adebayo, Mojisola. ​Moj of the Antarctic i​ n ​Hidden Gems Vol. I (​ London: Oberon, 2012)

Phillips, Caryl. ​Dancing in the Dark ​(London: Vintage, 2006)

Williams, Charlotte. ​Sugar and Slate​ (Aberystwyth: Planet 2002)

Kay, Jackie. ​Trumpet (​ London: Picador, 1998)

Agboluaje, Oladipo. ​The Hounding of David Oluwale ​(London: Oberon Books, 2009)

Pinnock, Winsome. ​Leave Taking ​[1987] (London: Nick Hern Books, 2018)

Traynor, Joanna. ​Sister Josephine ​(London: Bloomsbury, 1997)

Williams, Roy. ​Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads ​(London: Methuen, 2002)
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green, debbie tucker. ​dirty butterfly. (​ London: Nick Hern, 2003)

Interculturality, Text, Poetics

Ali, Monica. ​Brick Lane​ (London: Black Swan, 2004).

D’Aguiar, Fred. ​Feeding the Ghosts​ (Chatto & Windus,1997).

Emecheta, Buchi. ​Head Above Water: An Autobiography​ (Oxford: Heinemann, 1986)

Equiano, Olaudah. ​The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by
Himself.​ Edited, with an introduction by Paul Edwards (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1994).

Evaristo, Bernardine. ​Mr Loverman​ (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2013).

Fish, Laura. ​Strange Music​ (London: Jonathan Cape, 2008).

Oyeyemi, Helen. ​The Icarus Girl​ (London: Bloomsbury, 2005)

​ dited,
Prince, Mary. ​The history of Mary Prince : a West Indian slave / related by herself. E
with an introduction by Moira Ferguson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

Shire, Warsan. ​Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth ​(London: Flipped Eye Publishing,
2011)

Sunmonu, Yinka. ​Cherish​ (London: Mango Publishing, 2003).

Smith, Zadie, ​NW​ (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012).

Literature of the Carribbean and its Disaporas

Prince, Mary. ​The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself,​ (ed
Moira Ferguson), London: Pandora, 1987.
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Selvon, Sam. ​Lonely Londoners​. (ed. Susheila Nasta), London: Penguin Books, 2006.

Walcott, Derek. ​Omeros​, London: Faber, 1990.

Cesaire, Aimé. ​Notebook of a Return to My Native Land​ (trans Mireille Rosello), 1995.

Kincaid, Jamaica. ​A Small Place,​ New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000.

Johnson, Linton Kwesi. ​Mi revalueshanary fren: selected poems​, London: Penguin, 2002.

Rhys, Jean. ​Voyage in the Dark ​[1934] London: Penguin, 200o.

Riley, Joan.​ Waiting in the Twilight / Joan Riley. ​London: Women's Press, 1987.

Brathwaite, Kamau. ​The Arrivants: a New World Trilogy​. Oxford: O U P, 1973.

The Genres and Aesthetics of Contemporary Black British Literature

Monodrama

green, debbie tucker. ​random ​(London: Nick Hern Books, 2008)

Jumbo, Cush. ​Josephine and I ​(London: Bloomsbury, 2013)

Booker, Malika. ‘Absolution’ in Osborne, Deirdre (ed.) ​Hidden Gems Vol. II ​(London:
Oberon Books, 2012)

Mixedness

The Story of M​ (London: Oberon Books, 2017)

Evans, Diana. ​26a ​(London: Vintage, 2006)

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Adoption Aesthetics

Mason-John, Valerie. ​Borrowed Body ​(London: Serpent’s Tail, 2005)

Sissay, Lemn. ​Something Dark ​in Osborne, Deirdre (ed.) ​Hidden Gems ​(London: Oberon,
2008)

Sesay, Kadija. ​Irki ​(Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2013)

Textuality and Sexuality

Mike, Chuck., Coker, Antonia Kemi. and Munyevu, Tonderai. ​Zhe [noun]undefined.​
(London: Oberon Books, 2013)

Rudet, Jacqueline. ​Basin ​in ​Black Plays​ ed. Yvonne Brewster (London: Methuen, 1987),
113-39.

Landmark Poetics

Agbabi, Patience. ​Telling Tales ​(Edinburgh: Canongate, 2014)

Poly-phonic writing

green, debbie tucker. ​nut (​ London: Nick Hern Books, 2014)

Daley-Ward, Yrsa. ​The Terrible (​ London: Penguin, 2018)

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Life-writing

Briscoe, Constance. ​Ugly ​(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2009)

McKenzie-Mavinga and Perkins, Thelma. ​In Search of Mr McKenzie: Two Sisters’ Quest for
an Unknown Father ​(London: The Women’s Press, 1991)

Scally-Clarke, Michelle.​ I Am​ (Glasshoughton, Yorkshire: Route, 2001) (London: Methuen),

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The above list is reproduced from the reading guide of the MA Black British Writing at Goldsmiths
University of London.