Lynne Pearce

Postcolonial Manchester (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah's concept of 'diaspora space', the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy - and the inequalities upon which it turns - is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city's long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester's rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101877
• Artikelnr.: 48795796

Autorenporträt

Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw

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