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In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts & exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, John McLeod traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice & racism that have in part characterised the postcolonial city.
London's histories of migration and settlement and the resulting diverse, hybrid communities have engendered new forms of social and cultural activity reflected in a wealth of novels, poems, films and songs. Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of the city…
This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
"John McLeod's study is essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorizations of the city and metropolitan culture."--Jacket.
This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
For the Record considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what k…
A study of the colonial state's imposition of regimes of sexuality, as seen through archives of law, literature and pornography.
"Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, wha…