Multicultural Midlands

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region’s irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries. This book makes a claim for the importance of the Midlands and evidences this with nuanced close reading of a multitude of diverse texts spanning so-called ‘high’ to ‘low’ culture; from the Black Country’s ‘Desi Pubs’, to Leicester’s ‘McIndians’ Peri Peri (‘you’ve tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!’); Handsworth’s reggae roots to Adrian Mole’s diaries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-17
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMulticultural Textualities
Antal sidor272
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526154521

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Introduction: A so what? sort of place Nottingham: Writing the ‘rebel’ city Nottingham introduction: 1 Performance poetry, COVID-19 and the new ‘public sphere’ 2 #rebelnotts: literary tourism in Alan Sillitoe’s Nottingham Coda: ‘Ode to a Raleigh Burner’ Leicester: The ‘model’ multicultural city Leicester introduction: 3 Piri piri chicken: ‘demotic cosmopolitanism’ in contemporary Leicester 4 #WeNeedDiverseBooks: diversity in Leicester’s young adult fiction 5 ‘Leicester Leicester/ Fester fester’: at home with Adrian MoleCoda: Brimful of Leicester Birmingham: (re)building the second CityBirmingham introduction 6 Is Birmingham a ‘non-place’? 7 ‘Double vision’ in Handsworth Art Coda: ‘Our new layered city’The West Midlands: from Shakespeare to SyalWest Midlands introduction8 ‘Pathos, politics and paratha’: re-reading West Midlands, South Asian literature9 The great ‘talent drain’ of the West Midlands: Lenny Henry, Caitlin Moran and Sathnam SangheraCoda: Desi pubs of the Black Country The self-deprecating conclusion BibliographyIndex