Moving Manchester / Mediating Marginalities: How the experience of migration has informed the work of writers in Greater Manchester

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The project will examine the process whereby specific immigrant communities in the Greater Manchester area have employed, and continue to employ, written narrative to define and affirm their identities. In dose collaboration with The Arts Council, local publishers and writers' groups, the project will (i) Survey and electronically catalogue the output since 1960 of individual authors, (ii) Support the commissioning and presentation of new work of this type and (iii) Publish an edited anthology of writings and a full-scale academic study in which the development of narrative as a form of cultural mediation and the character of its impact are theorised, reviewed and analysed.