Multicultural Midlands.
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...
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| Language: | English |
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MANCHESTER :
MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction: 'a so what? sort of place'
- Nottingham: writing the 'rebel' city
- Nottingham: introduction
- Performance poetry, COVID-19 and the new 'public sphere'
- #rebelnotts: literary tourism in Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham
- Coda: 'ode to a Raleigh Burner'
- Leicester: the 'model' multicultural city
- Leicester: introduction
- Piri piri chicken: 'demotic cosmopolitanism' in contemporary Leicester
- #WeNeedDiverseBooks: diversity in Leicester's Young Adult fiction
- 'Leicester, Leicester/ Fester, fester': at home with Adrian Mole
- Coda: brimful of Leicester
- Birmingham: (re)building the second city
- Birmingham: introduction
- Is Birmingham a 'non-place'?
- 'Double vision' in Handsworth art
- Coda: 'our new layered city'
- The West Midlands: from Shakespeare to Syal
- The West Midlands: introduction
- 'Pathos, politics and paratha': re-reading West Midlands, South Asian literature
- The great 'talent drain' of the West Midlands: Lenny Henry, Caitlin Moran and Sathnam Sanghera
- Coda: desi pubs of the Black Country
- The self-deprecating conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
