Dwelling places: Postwar black British writing
Year: 2003
Type: dissertation
Abstract: List of illustrations 1. General Introduction I) Devolving black Britain ii) 'Black': A brief British history iii) Dwelling and diaspora 2. Dwelling places I) Introduction: The 'open door' and the domestic threshold ii) Descending the stairwell iii) Lyons at the circus iv) A 'little land' in London: The gate, the arch and the water v) Conclusion:'A place to retire to...' 3. The street I) Introduction ii) From basement to pavement iii) Off-street locations: The Mangrove Restaurant iv) Rioting and writing: The street and representation v) Touring the city: The black British flaneur vi) 'Doun de road' : Bluefootedness vii) Brick Lane viii) Conclusion: Yellowbricklane 4. Suburbia I) Introduction: The suburban border ii) Ordinariness, discrepant cosmopolitanism and the Singhs iii) The Black Country, Birmingham and 'Anita and Me' iv) Refurbishing suburbia v) Conclusion: 'here and there.' 5. The North I) Introduction: 'Another country.' ii) Black Britain beyond the centre iii) Bradford, the Rushdie affair and the re-imagination of landscape iv) Bradford and the tourist landscape v) Travelling north: Writing an English journey vi) Conclusion: 'Here' 6. Conclusion: Train stations and travel bags
Author: James Procter
Institution: Newcastle University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W335052045