London Calling : How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City
London Calling : How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City
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伦敦的呼唤:黑人和亚洲作家如何想象一座城市
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2003
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S. Sandhu
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从 11 世纪，一位评论员声称首都已被摩尔人占领，到今天的车库主持人和街头诗人 - 这本书讲述了从 17 世纪至今，黑人和亚洲人在伦敦的生活故事。 《伦敦的呼唤》讲述了伦敦黑人和亚洲文学的故事，追踪了这些被遗忘的作家的出轨、发财和自我扩张。这是一部令人愉悦且常常令人心醉神迷的作品，是一封写给首都的情书，是通过伟大的黑人和亚洲作家的想象力和经验所看到的丰富而复杂的社会和文化历史的融合。 《伦敦的呼唤》触及了移民冲动的核心，唤起了那些在帝国摇篮中寻求庇护和庇护的人们的梦想和冒险。这本书涵盖了逃亡奴隶、妓女、伊玛目、拳击皮条客、王公和殖民革命者，并讨论了风格和时代各异的作家，从 18 世纪的杂货商兼审美家伊格纳修斯·桑乔 (Ignatius Sancho)，一直到拉什迪 (Rushdie)、库雷什 (Kureishi) 和庭院编年史家维克多·海德利 (Victor Headley)。其结果是一部令人兴奋的作品，充满生机，因为它凸显了丰富但被忽视的文学传统，并让这座城市历史上的空白变得栩栩如生。苏赫德夫·桑杜将当今首都的多元文化主义置于其历史背景中，表明这并不是什么新现象，正如伦敦造就了许多黑人作家一样，他们也造就了伦敦。
From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today. 'London Calling' tells the story of black and Asian literary London, tracing the escapades, fortune making, and self-expansion of these forgotten writers. It is a joyful and often rapturous work, a love letter to the capital, a teeming and complex mix of social and cultural history seen through the imagination and experience of great black and Asian writers. 'London Calling' gets to the heart of the immigration impulse, and evokes the dreams and adventures of those who have sought refuge and asylum in the cradle of Empire. The book is populated by runaway slaves, lotharios, imams, boxer-pimps, rajahs and colonial revolutionaries, and discusses writers as diverse in style and time as the 18th-century grocer-aesthete Ignatius Sancho right through to Rushdie, Kureishi and yardie chronicler Victor Headley. The result is an exciting work, brimming with life, as it spotlights a rich but neglected literary tradition, and brings to life a gaping void in the city's history. Placing the multiculturalism of today's capital in its historical context, Sukhdev Sandhu shows that it is no new phenomenon, and that just as London has been the making of many black writers, they too have been the making of London.