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Informationen zum Autor Corinne Fowler is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester Robert Crawshaw is Senior Lecturer in European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory at Lancaster University Klappentext 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. 'This is an intellectually rich, inspiring and persistently readable book that manages with admirable dexterity to be many things at once: a revealing history of Manchester's quintessential diasporic condition, a critical rendering of the city's transcultural evolution, a major moment in devolving literary studies from its capital headquarters, a transformative contribution to our understanding of the North. As Postcolonial Manchester reveals, Manchester's fortunes owe as much to its central role in the industry of empire as to the demographic, migrational and multicultural changes that have produced many of Europe's urban centres as postcolonial cities. In shaping a confluent and mutually informing series of essays, the editors enable an illuminating engagement with the dizzying range of Manchester's diasporic writing across a wealth of genres, incorporating literary fiction, performance poetry, crime writing and short stories. Vital attention is paid, too, to the publishing ventures, cultural projects and key anthologies which stimulated and empowered much of the writing considered in this book. Ultimately, Postcolonial Manchester takes on the challenge, often voiced but rarely pursued, of exploring the differentiated diasporicity of Britain, while setting the highest standards for future research in this field.' John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds -- . Zusammenfassung Offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Manchester and the devolution of British literary culture - Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce1. Manchester: the postcolonial city - Lynne Pearce2. Publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers - Corinne Fowler3. Manchester's crime fiction: the mystery of the city's smoking gun - Lynne Pearce4. Collective resistance: Manchester's mixed-genre anthologies and short-story collections - Lynne Pearce5. Rebels without applause: Manchester's poetry in performance (1960s - the present) - Corinne Fowler 6. Giving Voice: the writers' perspective - Robert CrawshawAfterwordIndex...
