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Susheila Nasta

Publications

Forthcoming

India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950, ed. Susheila Nasta  (Palgrave 2012). Find out more

’Negotiating a New World Order: Mulk Raj Anand as Public Intellectual at the Heart of Empire 1925-1945’, South Asian Resistances in Britain 1870-1950, eds. Ahmed, R. Mukherjee, S., (Continuum, 2011)

‘Preface’ with Elleke Boehmer, How South Asians Shaped the Nation 1870-1950, ed. Ranasinha, R., with Ahmed, R., Mukherjee, S & Stadtler, F., (MUP, 2012)

‘Sealing a Friendship: Mulk Raj Anand and George Orwell at the BBC (1941-1943)’, Wasafiri, 67 (Routledge, 2011)

‘Nayantara Sahgal and Susheila Nasta in Conversation’, India in Britain – Cross Cultural Encounters, 1870-1950’ (Wasafiri Special Issue), ed. Stadtler, F (Routledge, 2012)

Numerous other outputs from AHRC Beyond the Frame and  Making Britain projects (in progress)

Other selected publications

‘Beyond the Frame: Writing a life and Jamaica Kincaid’s Family Album’, in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Vol 3, No 1 (OUP, 2009), 64-86

‘A new introduction’ to Sam Selvon’s Moses Migrating (Rienner Publications: Boulder, 2009)

‘Between Bloomsbury and Gandhi: The Publication and Reception History of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable’, Books Without Borders: Perspectives from South Asia, eds., R.Fraser, M. Hammond (Palgrave 2008), 120-39

 ‘A new introduction to “The Lonely Londoners”, The Lonely Londoners, Penguin Modern Classics Series (Penguin Books, 2006), v-xvii

‘‘Voyaging In’: Colonialism and Migration 1945-70’ in Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (eds) The Cambridge History of British Literature, Chapter 31 (CUP, 2005), 563-85
‘Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Paradise”’ in David Johnson (ed) The Popular and the Canonical: Debating Literature 1940-2000( Routledge, 2005),.294-343

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk; with intro including three interviews between Nasta and Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nasta and Sam Selvon, Nasta and Moyez Vassanji. (Routledge, 2004)

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (Palgrave, 2002)

Reading the ‘New’ Literatures in a Postcolonial Era (Boydell & Brewer, 2000); also a special issue of Essays and Studies.

Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon ([1988];Reiner Publications, 1995)

Foreday Morning: Sam Selvon’s Prose 1945-89, ed.,with Kenneth Ramchand (Longman, 1995)

Tiger’s Triumph: Celebrating Sam Selvon, ed. with Anna Ruthderford (Dangeroo Press, 1995)

El Dorado West One by Sam Selvon. Ed with intro.(Peepal Tree Press, 1992) Transcribed edition of radio plays with notes.

Highway in the Sun by Sam Selvon (Peepal Tree Press, 1992)  Transcribed edition of radio plays.

Motherlands: Black Women’s Writing from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia, (Women’s Press, 1991; Rutgers University Press. 1991); short-listed for Fawcett Society Prize

Also edited between 1984-2011 over 66 issues of Wasafiri including special issues: on Black British Writing, Life-Writing, South Asian Britain, Cultures of Terror, The World and the Book and special 25th birthday issue.

 

See also Open Research Online for further details of Susheila Nasta’s research publications.

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