Writing the city in British Asian diasporas / edited by Seán McLoughlin, William Gould, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Emma Tomalin.
"In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas that have been formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which...
| Uniform Title: | Routledge contemporary South Asia series ;
80. |
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary South Asia series ;
80. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Writing "Bradistan" : across the comains of social reality / Seán McLoughlin
- Representing British Bangladeshis in London's East End : the global city / John Eade
- Writing British Asian Manchester : vernacular cosmopolitanism on the "Curry Mile" / Virinder S. Kalra
- Discrepant representations of multi-Asian Leicester : institutional discourse and everyday life in the model multicultural city / Seán McLoughlin
- Between the city lines : towards a spatial historiography of British Asian Birmingham / Richard Gale
- South Asian histories in Britain : nation, locality and marginality / William Gould and Irna Qureshi
- Writing religion in British Asian diasporas / Seán McLoughlin and John Zavos
- Writing British Asian women : from purdah and the "problematic private sphere" to new forms of public engagement and cultural production / Emma Tomalin
- From writing to embodied vernacular cosmopolitanisms : the British Asian city and cultural production / Ananya Jahanara Kabir.