ISBN:
9781526154538
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Multicultural Textualities Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.09424
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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