July 3 1982: 8

‘The Empire writes back with a vengeance’, Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie article about ‘decolonisation’ and ‘English writing abroad’: [Black America] has given us – in Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, JB, Toni Morrison and others – writers with the courage and the talent to infuse English with new rhythms, new histories, new angles on the world.