{"product_id":"the-multicultural-midlands-9781526154521","title":"The Multicultural Midlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe multicultural Midlands\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region’s irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries. This book makes a claim for the importance of the Midlands and evidences this with nuanced close reading of a multitude of diverse texts spanning so-called ‘high’ to ‘low’ culture; from the Black Country’s ‘Desi Pubs’, to Leicester’s ‘McIndians’ Peri Peri (‘you’ve tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!’); Handsworth’s reggae roots to Adrian Mole’s diaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A so what? sort of place \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNottingham: Writing the ‘rebel’ city \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNottingham introduction:      \u003cbr\u003e1 Performance poetry, COVID-19 and the new ‘public sphere’  \u003cbr\u003e2 #rebelnotts: literary tourism in Alan Sillitoe’s Nottingham  \u003cbr\u003eCoda: ‘Ode to a Raleigh Burner’      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeicester: The ‘model’ multicultural city \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeicester introduction:  \u003cbr\u003e3 Piri piri chicken: ‘demotic cosmopolitanism’ in contemporary Leicester  \u003cbr\u003e4 #WeNeedDiverseBooks: diversity in Leicester’s young adult fiction       \u003cbr\u003e5 ‘Leicester Leicester\/ Fester fester’: at home with Adrian Mole\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Brimful of Leicester \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirmingham: (re)building the second City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirmingham introduction \u003cbr\u003e6 Is Birmingham a ‘non-place’? \u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Double vision’ in Handsworth Art \u003cbr\u003eCoda: ‘Our new layered city’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe West Midlands: from Shakespeare to Syal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWest Midlands introduction\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘Pathos, politics and paratha’: re-reading West Midlands, South Asian literature\u003cbr\u003e9 The great ‘talent drain’ of the West Midlands: Lenny Henry, Caitlin Moran and Sathnam Sanghera\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Desi pubs of the Black Country \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe self-deprecating conclusion      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041019068759,"sku":"9781526154521","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526154521.jpg?v=1750948626","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-multicultural-midlands-9781526154521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}