The Virginia Quarterly Review, January 1st, 2005
The Internationalization of English Literature, by Bruce King, volume 13 (1948-2000) of the Oxford English Literary History. Oxford, March 2004. $45
Bruce King is one of the pioneering scholars of world literature in English, having written influential studies of emerging literatures in Africa, India, and the Caribbean. His new book shifts the critical and geographic terrain from the former colonies of Great Britain to Britain itself, where both immigrant and second-generation writers of non-European descent are responsible for many of the most important literary breakthroughs since World War...
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