John Mcleod

Postcolonial London (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting the Metropolis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Postcolonial London" explores the imaginative transformation of London by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s. Engaging with a range of writers from Sam Selvon and Doris Lessing to Hanif Kureishi and Fred D'Aguiar, John McLeod examines a cultural history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. This resistance, he argues, bears witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of London's migrants and their descendants. McLeod's superb study is essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134286416
• Artikelnr.: 43074245

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Locating Postcolonial London 1. Making a Song and Dance Sam Selvon and Colin MacInnes 2. London, England 3. Living Room 4. Babylon's Burning 5. Millennial Currents 'No Fenky-Fenky Road' Bibliography

Rezensionen

'In recent years, postcolonial studies has begun to focus on questions of how space is represented within what were once seen as 'imperial centres'. This book links this new focus with questions which open up the 'national' and thereby addresses issues which have always been important, such as the extent to which our visions of the national have been built on migrant and diasporic, colonial and postcolonial identities. Thus we are forced to question the extent to which London has always in a sense been a transformative 'postcolonial' space not only after Empire, or after immigration, but before.' - Susheila Nasta, Open University, UK

' ... a smart, interesting and well-written book. Its chapters are ingeniously themed ...' - Wasafiri

'McLeod's fascinating book warrants the type of critical appreciatuion that one can only seldom bestow...it is engaging, refreshingly free of jargonistic compulsions, superbly attentive to detail - both historical-urban and textual - and, most importantly, responsive to the subtle networks of sensibilty and imagination which have changed the face of London in so many ways over the last fifty years.' - Cristina Sandru, The Journal of the English Association