Postcolonial Manchester

Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture
Herausgeber: Crawshaw, Robert; Pearce, Lynne; Fowler, Corinne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781526120014
• ISBN-10: 1526120011
• Artikelnr.: 47661854

Autorenporträt

Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory at Lancaster University Corinne Fowler is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester Robert Crawshaw is Senior Lecturer in European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Manchester and the devolution of British literary culture
Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce 1. Manchester: the postcolonial city
Lynne Pearce 2. Publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers
Corinne Fowler 3. Manchester's crime fiction: the mystery of the city's smoking gun
Lynne Pearce 4. Collective resistance: Manchester's mixed
genre anthologies and short
story collections
Lynne Pearce 5. Rebels without applause: Manchester's poetry in performance (1960s
the present)
Corinne Fowler 6. Giving Voice: the writers' perspective
Robert Crawshaw Afterword Index