LEADER 06192nam 2200757 450 001 9910816181003321 005 20200122115439.0 010 $a1-5261-0187-4 010 $a1-5261-0188-2 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526101884 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529325 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6371095 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979819626101631 035 $a(DE-B1597)659402 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526101884 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529325 100 $a20191209h20152013 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcolonial Manchester $ediaspora space and the devolution of literary culture /$fLynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 311 $a1-5261-2001-1 311 $a0-7190-8815-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Manchester and the devolution of British literary culture / Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce -- Manchester: the postcolonial city / Lynne Pearce -- Publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers / Corinne Fowler -- Manchester's crime fiction: the mystery of the city's smoking gun / Lynne Pearce -- Collective resistance: Manchester's mixed-genre anthologies and short-story collections / Lynne Pearce -- 'Rebels without applause': Manchester's poetry in performance (1960s to the present) / Corinne Fowler -- Giving voice: the writer's perspective / Robert Crawshaw -- Afterword / Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce. 330 $aPostcolonial 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 members of the city's long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester's rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London. 330 8 $a"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 members of the city's long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester's rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London. The book is organised around those predominant literary modes that have dominated Manchester's literary scene over the past forty years: namely, crime fiction, mixed-genre anthologies and 'poetry in performance'. In addition, it seeks to capture Manchester's distinctive postcolonial identity through a wide-ranging exploration of its history, literature and popular culture, while exploring the challenges involved in publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers. Throughout the volume, the discussion is concerned with the production and consumption of the texts as well as their subject matter. The book concludes by detailing in-depth interviews with several of the writers featured elsewhere in the volume. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of contemporary literary and postcolonial studies, as well as general readers with an interest in Manchester." --Back cover. 606 $aEnglish literature$zEngland$zManchester$xMinority authors 606 $aImmigrants' writings, English$zEngland$zManchester$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisach 606 $aIreland$2thema 607 $aManchester (England)$xLiteratures 610 $aAsian poet. 610 $aLemn Sissay. 610 $aPostcolonial Manchester. 610 $aSuAndi. 610 $ablack poet. 610 $acollective resistance. 610 $acrime capital. 610 $adiaspora space. 610 $aliterary culture. 610 $amixed-genre anthologies. 610 $apublishing houses. 610 $ashort story. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xMinority authors. 615 0$aImmigrants' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 615 7$aIreland 676 $a820.9942733 700 $aPearce$b Lynne$0974855 702 $aFowler$b Corinne 702 $aCrawshaw$b Robert H. 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816181003321 996 $aPostcolonial Manchester$93956326 997 $aUNINA