Tagged: BAME

Zadie Smith, November 22, 2016 | © Courtesy of Chris Boland/Flickr.

08/03/2019

The Political Factors of the Critical Reception and Endorsement of Minority Authors

In short, the success of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) authors has so far rested on three pillars: the authors’ choice of “fashionable themes,” publicity that exploits preconceived ideas about minorities, using genre...

Nnedi Okorafor & Ken MacLeod, Scottish Pen Talk, Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 14, 2014 | © Courtesy of byronv2/Flickr.

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22/02/2019

The Artistic Value of BAME Literary Texts, the Popularity of BAME Authors and the British Publishing Industry

This essay discusses the decline in the interest in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, which has triggered in academic circles and in the mainstream and trade press a debate about the artistic...

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, The Freedwomen's Bureau, BLACKNUSS: books + other relics, Malcolm X Blvd. 131, Harlem, New York, NY, USA, October 12, 2014 | © Courtesy of j-No/Flickr.

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15/02/2019

BAME Authors, the Literary Establishment and the Publishing Industry in the UK

This essay discusses the creation of literary canons of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) fiction. A Blog Article by Izabella Penier. Literary canons are instruments of creating national identities. As Benedict Anderson has...