Introduction 1
1．The End of Imperial England and the Seeds of the New:1948-1969 13
Ⅰ．New Immigrants 13
Ⅱ．Prose:Culture Conflict and Lonely Londoners 32
Ⅲ．Poetry:Swansongs,Birds of Passage 61
Ⅳ．Drama:West Indian Social Realists 71
2．Transformations:1970-1979 73
Ⅰ．Ethnicity and the Myth of Revolution 73
Ⅱ．Prose:Some Firsts 79
Ⅲ．Poetry:Black Modernists 103
Ⅳ．Drama:West Indian Playwrights and Black Lives 119
3．Fragmentation and Internationalization:1980-1989 125
Ⅰ．Demanding Rights 125
Ⅱ．Prose:From Exotic to British,Almost 140
Ⅲ．Poetry:Performance and Dialect 192
Ⅳ．Drama:Black,Black Feminist,and Asian Brecht 211
4．England's New English Literature:1990-2000 224
Ⅰ．Celebrating Multiracial England 224
Ⅱ．Prose:Remapping England 236
Ⅲ．Poetry:Returning to the Page and the Self 292
Ⅳ．Drama:Histories 311
Conclusion 322
Author Bibliographies 326
Suggestions for Further Reading 362
Index 369