Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis - Rilegato

McLeod, John

 
9780415344593: Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis
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ISBN 10: 041534459X ISBN 13: 9780415344593
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004

Sinossi

London's histories of migration and settlement and the resulting diverse, hybrid communities have engendered new forms of social and cultural activity reflected in a wealth of novels, poems, films and songs. Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
John McLeod engages freshly with the work of both well-known and emergent writers, including Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Colin MacInnes, Bernardine Evaristo, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fred D'Aguiar. In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts and exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, he traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. Rewritings of London, he argues, bear witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of the city's migrants and their descendants.
This is a superb study of the ways in which 'imperial centre' might be rewritten as postcolonial metropolis. It represents essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John McLeod is a lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. He has written on postcolonial literature for a variety of publications, including Wasafiri, Interventions and Journal of Commonwealth Literature and is the author of Beginning Postcolonialism (2000).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
041534459X
ISBN 13 
9780415344593
Rilegatura
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
220
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ISBN 10:  0415344603 ISBN 13:  9780415344609
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004
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