Part I: Black Britain’s Historical Culture: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction and Conceptual Reflections
2. Representations of a Black History in Britain: An Overview of ‘Factual’ and ‘Fictional’ Genres
Part II: Engaging with the Historical Culture: Reactions
3. Two Black British Lives: Charlotte Williams’s Sugar and Slate and Mike Phillips’s London Crossings
4. Writing War – Writing Windrush: Andrea Levy’s Novel Small Island
5. Artistic Historiographies between the Black Atlantic and Black Britain: Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and Foreigners
6. Narratives Beyond Texts
Conclusion and Outlook
Biography
Eva Ulrike Pirker is a lecturer of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has published articles on literature, film and photography in the fields of postcolonial studies, migration studies and the emerging field of the study of historical culture, and has co-edited two volumes devoted to analyses of contemporary British culture (Multiethnic Britain 2000+ and Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture), but is interested in the mechanisms of cultural representation in the widest sense.
“Narrative Projections of a Black British History provides a unique and useful addition to what its author acknowledges is now a ‘thriving field’ of historical scholarship on black inhabitants of the UK…It offers a thorough study of contemporary historiography while vividly illustrating the struggle between rising public interest in black Britons and their active exclusion from historical accounts…the book as a whole is an ambitious and valuable contribution to the field it seeks to analyse.” - Malachi MacIntosh, Wasafiri
