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Imagining London : Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis /

London was once the hub of an empire on which 'the sun never set.' After the second world war, as Britain withdrew from most of its colonies, the city that once possessed the world began to contain a diasporic world that was increasingly taking possession of it. Drawing on postcolonial the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ball, John Clement (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: The Key to the Capital
  • 2 London North-West: The Broader Borders of Metropolitan Canadianness
  • 3 London South-West: Caribbean Fiction and Metropolitan Life
  • 4 London South-East: Metropolitan (Un)realities in Indian Fiction
  • 5 London Centre: The Familial Urban World of Recent 'Black British' Writing
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index