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'In recent years, postcolonial studies has begun to focus on questions of how space is represented within what were once seen as 'imperial centres'. This book links this new focus with questions which open up the 'national' and thereby addresses issues which have always been important, such as the extent to which our visions of the national have been built on migrant and diasporic, colonial and postcolonial identities. Thus we are forced to question the extent to which London has always in a sense been a transformative 'postcolonial' space not only after Empire, or after immigration, but before.' - Susheila Nasta, Open University, UK
' ... a smart, interesting and well-written book.' - Wasafiri
'McLeod's fascinating book warrants the type of critical appreciatuion that one can only seldom bestow...it is engaging, refreshingly free of jargonistic compulsions, superbly attentive to detail - both historical-urban and textual - and, most importantly, responsive to the subtle networks of sensibilty and imagination which have changed the face of London in so many ways over the last fifty years.' - Cristina Sandru, The Journal of the English Association,
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John McLeod engages freshly with the work of both well-known and emergent writers, including Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Colin MacInnes, Bernardine Evaristo, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fred D'Aguiar. In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts and exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, he traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. Rewritings of London, he argues, bear witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of the city's migrants and their descendants.
This is a superb study of the ways in which 'imperial centre' might be rewritten as postcolonial metropolis. It represents essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.
One afternoon, in May 1955, the anthropologist Sheila Patterson took a journey to Brixton in South London. Read the first page
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McLeod initially focuses on texts that record the alienation and disappointment felt by newcomers to the 'Motherland'. He charts the progression of immigrant literature as a second, native, generation create new, policticised forms of writing. Mcleod ends by exploring modern day multi-racial authors trying to negotiate their identity in contemporary UK society.
McLeod successfully highlights the new narratives and new voices that have come out of London due to the growth of diasporic communities. By examining how postcolonial literature has the potential to transform boundaries surrounding notions of empire, identity, race and nation McLeod delivers a message that has particular significance considering the current political climate. He makes the reader re-examine the cultural site of London and ultimatley judges it to be one of the most exciting and innovative spaces in Britain. I, for one, agree.
John Mcleod taught me at university and changed the way I look at Britain, and indeed at the inhabitants of Britain.
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