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London Calling - How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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London Calling - How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was
being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of
today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and
Asian people from the 17th-century until today. 'London Calling'
tells the story of black and Asian literary London, tracing the
escapades, fortune making, and self-expansion of these forgotten
writers. It is a joyful and often rapturous work, a love letter to
the capital, a teeming and complex mix of social and cultural
history seen through the imagination and experience of great black
and Asian writers. 'London Calling' gets to the heart of the
immigration impulse, and evokes the dreams and adventures of those
who have sought refuge and asylum in the cradle of Empire. The book
is populated by runaway slaves, lotharios, imams, boxer-pimps,
rajahs and colonial revolutionaries, and discusses writers as
diverse in style and time as the 18th-century grocer-aesthete
Ignatius Sancho right through to Rushdie, Kureishi and yardie
chronicler Victor Headley. The result is an exciting work, brimming
with life, as it spotlights a rich but neglected literary
tradition, and brings to life a gaping void in the city's history.
Placing the multiculturalism of today's capital in its historical
context, Sukhdev Sandhu shows that it is no new phenomenon, and
that just as London has been the making of many black writers, they
too have been the making of London.
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