Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation - Softcover

Grant, Colin

 
9781784709136: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784709131 ISBN 13: 9781784709136
Verlag: Vintage, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life… Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph

Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words, we witness the transition from the optimism of the first post-war arrivals to the race riots of the late 1950s. We hear from nurses in Manchester; bus drivers in Bristol; seamstresses in Birmingham; teachers in Croydon; dockers in Cardiff; inter-racial lovers in High Wycombe, and Carnival Queens in Leeds. These are stories of hope and regret, of triumphs and challenges, brimming with humour, anger and wisdom. Together, they reveal a rich tapestry of Caribbean British lives.

Homecoming is an unforgettable portrait of a generation, which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history.

** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**
**A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year**

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Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784709131
ISBN 13 
9781784709136
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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