What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain: A New Statesman Book of the Year - Tapa blanda

Banerjee, Sheela

 
9781529367607: What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain: A New Statesman Book of the Year

Sinopsis

WINNER OF THE EASTERN EYE AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

'A brilliantly enlightening book'

Michael Rosen

'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK'
Irish Times

'I cannot recommend it highly enough'
Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies

OUR NAMES OUR SO MUNDANE WE HARDLY NOTICE THEM. Yet behind each one lie countless stories: of belonging and persecution, colonialism and resistance, cultural inheritance and conflicted identity.

In this intimate exploration of British multiculturalism, Sheela Banerjee traces the personal histories of friends and family through their names. Spanning centuries and continents - from west London to India, 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - What's in a Name? is a remarkable ode to friendship and a vital celebration of Britain's diverse history.

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Sheela Banerjee is a journalist and academic and worked for many years at the BBC and Channel 4, directing programmes which told powerful stories of individual lives. She has also worked as a radio reporter and BBC producer on current affairs and political programmes. She left TV to undertake a PhD on Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. What's in a Name? is her first book.

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9781529367591: What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain: A New Statesman Book of the Year

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ISBN 10:  152936759X ISBN 13:  9781529367591
Editorial: Sceptre, 2023
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