Black British Feminism and the Birth of South Asian Women’s Writing

The current situation of South Asian women in Britain as expressed in their cultural creativity reflects and includes an important legacy from the past. These women were offered a sisterhood which first found its expression in the Black feminist movement. South Asian women initially published alongside other ‘Black’ women writers, in particular during the 1970s and most of the 1980s. This was at a time when the term Black was created as a new collective boundary in the light of racism; it defined a group of people campaigning on all levels against the existing establishment (Hussain, 2004).