Abstract 'Black British', as a category of ethnic, racial, or political identity, is leaky and
imprecise, serving most usefully to describe how individuals and their work are positioned …

Abstract Andrea Levy's The Long Song takes readers to pre-and post-Emancipation
Jamaica through the voice of July, an old black woman who in the final years of the 19th …

Two centuries after the first autobiography by an enslaved African was published in London,
black British authors revisit the historical issue of slavery by imagining the life stories of …

This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing
representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila …

The current study seeks to investigate how Crossing the River (1993) by Caryl Phillips and
Small Island (2004) by Andrea Levy engage with what is known today as postcolonial …

Given Caribbean writers' decades-long preoccupation with the past, that often includes a
focus on how the wounding events of history continue to shape present-day experiences, it …

Background: Black-Caribbean older-adults in the UK statistically have poorer mental health
outcomes and are unlikely to seek help from mental health services, than their racial …

ITH HER FIFTH NOVEL, THE LONG SONG, published in 2010 and shortlisted for the Booker
Prize, Andrea Levy continues to explore decisive moments of entangled Caribbean and …

The purpose of this research was to give voice to a population that is rarely heard from, they
are, the Jamaican elders. This research further set out to record the lived experiences of the …

This article considers Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots (2008) and Andrea Levy's The
Long Song (2010) as innovative works of fiction that experiment with the form of the slave …