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Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas (Paperback)
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Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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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 formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe
the ways in which the South Asian diaspora can be
re-conceptualised. Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas
takes a fresh look at such matters and will have multi-disciplinary
resonance worldwide. The meaning and importance of local,
multi-local and trans-local dynamics is explored through a devolved
and regionally-accented comparison of five British Asian cities:
Bradford, the East End of London, Manchester, Leicester and
Birmingham. Analysing the 'writing' of these differently configured
cities since the 1960s, its main focus is the significant
discrepancies in representation between differently-positioned
texts reflecting both dominant institutional discourses and
everyday lived experiences of a locality. Part I offers a
comprehensive, yet still highly contested, reading of each city's
archives. Part II examines how the arts and humanities fields of
History, Religion, Gender and Literary/Cultural Studies have all
written British Asian diasporas, and how their perspectives might
complement the better-established agendas of the social sciences.
Providing an innovative analysis of South Asian communities and
their multi-local identities in Britain today, this
interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars of South
Asian Studies, Migration, Ethnic and Diaspora Studies, as well as
Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.
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