Susheila Nasta
Biographic Data
| ID | 621513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susheila Nasta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Nasta |
| SIGNATURE | NASTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A History of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary and visual arts to interventions in politics and economic policy, core members including Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and John Maynard Keynes are explored in relation …
Messy Solidarities”
This essay reflects on the history of anti-racist politics and activism in Britain following the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US. Examining the history of the literary magazine Wasafiri, it offers insights into how the different nomenclatures for 'black' and 'Asian' emerged at different moments in time. It provides a series of autobiographical pathways into this material, arguing that we should not forget the past to move forw…
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating…
India in Britain
India in Britain traces the often hidden lines of Indian-British connection which took place on British soil during the period 1858-1950. Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and the British presence in India, this book exposes a differently- contoured landscape, drawing attention to the significance of the many networks and connections that South Asians themselves established on British soil. Interdisciplinary in ethos, it stretches a…
Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
An Island is a World’
Islands, whether real or imagined, have inspired many of Romesh Gunesekera’s works as has a preoccupation with migration, the effects of the passage of time and the role of language as symbolic ves
Passing On the Torch
Life-lines
A discussion of genre, life-writing and memoir in Bart Moore-Gilbert's The Setting Sun. Susheila Nasta and Hilly Janes reflect on its composition and the construction of “fathers”
An Interview with Janice Shinebourne
Janice Lowe Shinebourne was born Janice Lowe on 23 June 1947 at Rose Hall sugar estate, in Canje, Berbice, in what was then British Guiana. The country was under colonial rule, and she lived throug
An Interview with Beryl Gilroy
This conversation between the late Beryl Gilroy, Guyanese British writer, and Susheila Nasta, Founding Editor of Wasafiri, took place in 1986 at the ICA in London. The interview was recorded and or
Looking Back to Look Forward
An Unexpected Encounter with Sam Selvon at the National Portrait Gallery
In 2011, I visited the National Portrait Gallery in London to see a retrospective exhibition of the work of Ida Kar, an Armenian photographer famous for her intimate studies of an eclectic range of
In Conversation with Nayantara Sahgal
Sealing a Friendship
Everything to Declare’
The Book in the World
Writing a Life
Writing in Britain
Travellers’ Tales
Beyond the Millennium
Nasta's piece forms part of an oral contribution to the plenary session of the conference in which a variety of speakers discussed the many questions that the conference had raised. It focuses specifically on the location and history of black women's writing in Britain and attempts to address issues that have dominated critical and theoretical discussion for some years. The question as to how far we have moved on in our reading and assessment of …
Clarissa Luard 1948 ‐1999
Githa Hariharan talks to Susheila Nasta
Beyond Miranda's Meanings
Memories of Sam Selvon
Interview
Samuel Selvon
The Moses trilogy
Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon
Interview
Memories of Sam Selvon
Beyond Miranda's Meanings
Githa Hariharan talks to Susheila Nasta
Beyond the Millennium
Nasta's piece forms part of an oral contribution to the plenary session of the conference in which a variety of speakers discussed the many questions that the conference had raised. It focuses specifically on the location and history of black women's writing in Britain and attempts to address issues that have dominated critical and theoretical discussion for some years. The question as to how far we have moved on in our reading and assessment of …
Clarissa Luard 1948 ‐1999
Travellers’ Tales
Writing in Britain
Writing a Life
The Book in the World
Everything to Declare’
Sealing a Friendship
In Conversation with Nayantara Sahgal
An Unexpected Encounter with Sam Selvon at the National Portrait Gallery
In 2011, I visited the National Portrait Gallery in London to see a retrospective exhibition of the work of Ida Kar, an Armenian photographer famous for her intimate studies of an eclectic range of
Looking Back to Look Forward
Life-lines
A discussion of genre, life-writing and memoir in Bart Moore-Gilbert's The Setting Sun. Susheila Nasta and Hilly Janes reflect on its composition and the construction of “fathers”
An Interview with Janice Shinebourne
Janice Lowe Shinebourne was born Janice Lowe on 23 June 1947 at Rose Hall sugar estate, in Canje, Berbice, in what was then British Guiana. The country was under colonial rule, and she lived throug
An Interview with Beryl Gilroy
This conversation between the late Beryl Gilroy, Guyanese British writer, and Susheila Nasta, Founding Editor of Wasafiri, took place in 1986 at the ICA in London. The interview was recorded and or
Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
An Island is a World’
Islands, whether real or imagined, have inspired many of Romesh Gunesekera’s works as has a preoccupation with migration, the effects of the passage of time and the role of language as symbolic ves
Passing On the Torch
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating…
History (20 works) · History (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (4 works)