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

该项目将审查大曼彻斯特地区的特定移民社区采用并继续采用书面叙述来界定和确认其身份的过程。与艺术局、当地出版商和作家团体合作，该项目将(I)对1960年以来个人作者的作品进行调查和电子编目，(Ii)支持委托创作和展示这类新作品，(Iii)出版一本经过编辑的文集和一项全面的学术研究，其中对叙事作为一种文化中介形式的发展及其影响的特点进行理论分析和审查。

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.