Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing

by James Procter

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Part 1: General Introduction * Devolving Black Britain * "Black": a Brief British History * Dwelling and Diaspora * Part 2: Dwelling Places * Introduction: The "Open Door" and the Domestic Threshold * Descending the Stairwell * Lyons at the Circus * A "Little Land" In London: The Gate, the Arch and the Water * Conclusion: "A Place to Retire to.....' * Part 3. The Street * Introduction * From Basement to Pavement * Off-Street Locations: The Mangrove Restaurant * Rioting and Writing: The show more Street and Representation * Touring the City: the Black British Flaneur * "Doun De Road" : Bluefootedness * Brick Lane * Conclusion: Yellowbricklane * Part 4. Suburbia * Introduction: The Suburban Border * Ordinariness, Discrepant Cosmopolitanism and the Singhs * The Black Country, Birmingham and 'Anita and Me' * Refurbishing Suburbia *Conclusion: 'Here and There...' Part 5. The North * Introduction: 'Another country...' * Black Britain beyond the Centre * Bradford, the Rushdie Affair and the Re-imagination of Landscape * Bradford and the Tourist Landscape * Travelling North: Writing an English Journey * Conclusion: "Here" * Part 6. Conclusion: Train Stations and Travel Bags show less