Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas

ISBN-13: 9780815384069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 246 str.

Sean McLoughlin; William Gould; Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Opis

Revisiting the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond, this book looks at the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised as comprising communities whose identity, on both individual and collective levels, is grounded in a sense of rooted and connected locations that do not necessarily privilege the homeland.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I: Cities 2. Writing ‘Bradistan’ Across the Domains of Social Reality  3. Representing British Bangladeshis in London’s East End: The Global City, Text, Performance and Authenticity 4. Writing British Asian Manchester: Vernacular Cosmopolitanism on the ‘Curry Mile’ 5. Discrepant Representations of Multi-Asian Leicester: Institutional Discourse and Everyday Life in the Model Multicultural City 6. Between the City Lines: Towards a Spatial Historiography of British Asian Birmingham Part II: Themes 7. South Asian histories in Britain: Nation, locality and marginality  8. Writing Religion in British Asian Diasporas9. Writing British Asian Women: From purdah and the ‘problematic private sphere’ to new forms of public engagement and cultural production 10. From Writing to Embodied Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: The British Asian City and Cultural Production