Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture
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 membe…
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Weitere Autoren: Fowler, Corinne (Hrsg.) / Crawshaw, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8815-5
- EAN: 9780719088155
- Produktnummer: 22678886
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 326 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.0 cm 680 g
- Gewicht: 680
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Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory at Lancaster UniversityCorinne Fowler is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of LeicesterRobert Crawshaw is Senior Lecturer in European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University
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