From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization continued with the assertion of African West Indian Commonwealth and other literatures and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce Kings extensive Introduction discusses the personalities writers issues and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since Modernism. The Introduction also explains the fortyfive essays and reviews he has selected from his publications to illustrate the development stages and major national literatures authors and themes. Special attention is given to Nigerian West Indian Australian Indian and Pakistani literature. Topics and issues include Derry Jeffares organising Commonwealth and AngloIrish studies the emergence and aesthetics of African literature the question of the existence of a Nigerian literature the place of the new universities in decolonizing culture the influence of the Rockefeller Foundation the contrasting models of American and Irish literatures ethnicity as response the changing nature of exile and diasporas the role of Jewish writers minorities Muslim objections to free speech The Satanic Verses controversy traditionalism versus modernism the dangers of cultural assertion and the relationships between nationalism and internationalism. Authors discussed include Chinua Achebe Ahmed Ali Margaret Atwood David Dabydeen K N Daruwalla Nissim Ezekiel Abdulrazak Gurnah Almagir Hashmi Attia Hosain A D Hope Adil Jussawalla Arun Kolatkar Hanif Kureishi Dom Moraes Frank Moorhouse V S Naipaul Abioseh Nicol Gabriel Okara Mike Phillips Mordechai Richler Salman Rushdie Wole Soyinka Garth St Omer Kamila Shamsie Randolph Stow Jeet Thayil and Derek Walcott.