In the future will there be a literary history of England, or will it be an English-language literary history? This important and concluding volume in The Oxford English Literary History covers colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers since 1948. Bruce King discusses such topics as Black British Poetry and Drama, Commonwealth Literature, and British African Literature, and looks in depth at writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Doris Lessing.