Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (60 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
Series |
Faber & Faber 90th anniversary series.
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Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Cast |
Read by Daljit Nagra. |
Summary |
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. By turns realist and romantic, these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation, but remain, always, touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
South Asians -- Great Britain -- Poetry.
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South Asians -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Poetry.
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Multiculturalism -- Great Britain -- Poetry.
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Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Poetry.
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Added Author |
Nagra, Daljit.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781528892025 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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152889202X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT13644525 |
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