Postcolonial Manchester : Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture.
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- 9781526101884
- 820.9942733
- PR1109 .P437 2013
POSTCOLONIAL MANCHESTER: Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- The authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 to the present): Corinne Fowler -- 6. Giving voice: the writers' perspective: Robert Crawshaw -- Afterword: Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce -- Index.
Offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene.
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