The Literary North
The Literary North
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文学北方
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10.1057/9781137026873_14
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2012
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Pearce L
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Pearce L
今天，在二十一世纪的第二个十年，大曼彻斯特是大约250万人的家园。什么是“家”？尽管后现代话语，无论是学术还是流行，都给这个概念注入了暂时性，但“家”仍然承载着根、扎根和遗产的强大内涵（Marangoly乔治，1996）。从这种古老的意义上说，家不是“你”来自哪里，甚至不是你出生的地方，而是你家庭的前几代人来自哪里：你的父母、你的祖父母，很可能还有你的曾祖父母。然而，这显然不是任何一个家在曼彻斯特的人的情况。正如《曼彻斯特，英格兰》（Manchester，England，2000）一书的作者戴夫·哈斯拉姆（Dave Haslam）所总结的那样：与300年前繁荣的大都会伦敦不同，曼彻斯特是一个混合型的城市，150年前在匆忙中诞生，当时来到快速发展的工厂、车间、仓库和铸造厂工作的人包括大量信奉天主教的爱尔兰人、苏格兰人、德国人和东欧犹太人。自那时以来，这些移民一直在重复，1950年代有来自加勒比的移民，1970年代有来自亚洲次大陆的移民。（Haslam 2000：xi）
Today, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, Greater Manchester is home to approximately two and a half million people. But in what sense ‘home’? Despite the postmodern discourses, both academic and popular, which have imbued the concept with provisionality, ‘home’ still bears powerful connotations of roots, rootedness and heritage (Marangoly George 1996). Home, in this archaic sense, is not where ‘you’ come from, or even where you were born, but where previous generations of your family come from: your parents, your grandparents and, quite possibly, your great-grandparents. Yet this is manifestly not the case foranyonewhose home is Manchester. As Dave Haslam, author ofManchester, England(2000) sums up:Unlike London, which was a thriving metropolis three hundred years ago, Manchester is a hybrid town, born all in a rush one hundred and fifty years ago, when those arriving for work in the fast-growing factories, workshops, warehouses and foundries included large numbers of Catholic Irish, as well as Scots, and Germans and East European Jews. These migrations have been replicated since, with incomers from the Caribbean in the 1950s and from the Asian sub-continent in the 1970s. (Haslam 2000: xi)