“From over the Seven Seas the Empire’s sons came”: Addressing historical oblivion in Andrea Levy’s “Uriah’s War”
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DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2017.1284149
Abstract: Abstract The work of Andrea Levy has recurrently explored the historical connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and has contributed to the mapping of black British identities. Six Stories and an Essay (2014) continues this… read more here.
Keywords: historical oblivion; uriah war; great war; war ... See more keywords
Decolonizing cultural memory in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
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DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2019.1633554
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel Small Island as a postcolonial trauma novel that revisions cultural memory of World War II and its aftermath. Utilising the insights of Stef Craps’s Postcolonial Witnessing, it… read more here.
Keywords: small island; cultural memory; memory; andrea levy ... See more keywords