Blacks in English Renaissance drama and the role of Shakespeare's Othello / Ruth Cowhig -- Eighteenth-century English literature on commerce and slavery / David Dabydeen -- Black writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures / Paul Edwards -- Alexander Harris's The Emigrant Family and Afro-black people in colonial Australia / Ian Duffield -- Reading the novels of empire: race and ideology in the classic 'tale of adventure' / Brian Street -- The dog that didn't bark: the subject races in imperial fiction at the turn of the century / Frances M. Mannsaker -- Buchan and 'The Black General' / David Daniell -- Problematic presence: the colonial other in Kipling and Conrad / John McClure -- Manipulating Africa: the buccaneer as 'liberator' in contemporary fiction / Abena P. A. Busia -- The revelation of Caliban: 'the black presence' in the classroom / Kenneth Parker
Summary
This collection of essays surveys the depiction of black people in English Literature from Shakespeare to contemporary popular fiction
Analysis
English literature, to 1980. Special subjects: African Americans - Critical studies
Notes
Essays presented at a conference held in Dec. 1982 in Wolverhampton, U.K
