Multicultural Midlands

Introduction: A so what? sort of place

Nottingham: Writing the 'rebel' city
Nottingham introduction:
1 Performance poetry, COVID-19 and the new 'public sphere'
2 #rebelnotts: literary tourism in Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham
Coda: 'Ode to a Raleigh Burner'

Leicester: The 'model' multicultural city
Leicester introduction:
3 Piri piri chicken: 'demotic cosmopolitanism' in contemporary Leicester
4 #WeNeedDiverseBooks: diversity in Leicester's young adult fiction
5 'Leicester Leicester/ Fester fester': at home with Adrian Mole
Coda: Brimful of Leicester

Birmingham: (re)building the second City
Birmingham introduction
6 Is Birmingham a 'non-place'?
7 'Double vision' in Handsworth Art
Coda: 'Our new layered city'

The West Midlands: from Shakespeare to Syal
West Midlands introduction
8 'Pathos, politics and paratha': re-reading West Midlands, South Asian literature
9 The great 'talent drain' of the West Midlands: Lenny Henry, Caitlin Moran and Sathnam Sanghera
Coda: Desi pubs of the Black Country

The self-deprecating conclusion

Bibliography
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• Comida e sociedade
• História local
• Estudos cultirais
• As minorias étnicas e Estudos Multiculturais
• Estudos literários: geral
• Música

Birmingham; black British literature; British Asian literature; D. H. Lawrence; Leicester; multiculturalism; Nottingham; Stoke-on-Trent; The Black Country; The Midlands; Wolverhampton; working class literature