In his article 'Rural racism in Britain’s "Green Unpleasant Land"', Amit Roy interviews Corinne Fowler for the Eastern Eye.
“I could have called it Green Unpleasant Land with a question mark,” acknowledged Fowler. “But I just wanted to signal that the book was disrupting our more traditional views of the countryside.
“‘Green and pleasant land’ is something which gives us a feeling of nostalgia, of love for the countryside. But I wanted to slightly trouble that feeling. Hence the provocative title.
“I’m looking afresh at the English countryside. I’m trying to open up its histories of connection to the British empire, to the East India Company and to transatlantic slavery in particular.”
