James Procter

Dwelling places

Postwar Black British Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south. Pursues a 'devolving' landscape in order to consider what an analysis of 'dwelling' might contribute to the travelling theories of diaspora discourse and asks what happens when we 'situate' literatures of movement and migration. Offers fresh readings of work by some of the key literary figures of the postwar years, for example, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Meera Syal, Linton Kwesi Johnson. Contextualises writings alongside photography, painting, and film to consider their relationship to broader shifts in the politics of black representation over the past fifty years. Offers sustained anaysis of many of the texts reproduced in Procter's anthology Writing black Britain 1948-98 ( MUP, 2000) making an ideal companion to the earlier book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780719060540
• ISBN-10: 0719060540
• Artikelnr.: 21809803

Autorenporträt

James Procter is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations 1. General Introduction I) Devolving black Britain
ii) 'Black': A brief British history iii) Dwelling and diaspora 2. Dwelling
places I) Introduction: The 'open door' and the domestic threshold ii)
Descending the stairwell iii) Lyons at the circus iv) A 'little land' in
London: The gate, the arch and the water v) Conclusion:'A place to retire
to.....' 3. The street I) Introduction ii) From basement to pavement iii)
Off-street locations: The Mangrove Restaurant iv) Rioting and writing: The
street and representation v) Touring the city: The black British flaneur
vi) 'Doun de road' : Bluefootedness vii) Brick Lane viii) Conclusion:
Yellowbricklane 4. Suburbia I) Introduction: The suburban border ii)
Ordinariness, discrepant cosmopolitanism and the Singhs iii) The Black
Country, Birmingham and 'Anita and Me' iv) Refurbishing suburbia v)
Conclusion: 'here and there...' 5. The North I) Introduction: 'Another
country...' ii) Black Britain beyond the centre iii) Bradford, the Rushdie
affair and the re-imagination of landscape iv) Bradford and the tourist
landscape v) Travelling north: Writing an English journey vi) Conclusion:
'Here' 6. Conclusion: Train stations and travel bags