'Where the city dissolves' : suburban diasporas, psychosis and reparative writing

Dines, Martin (2024) 'Where the city dissolves' : suburban diasporas, psychosis and reparative writing. In: Grant, Charlotte and Robinson, Alistair, (eds.) Cultures of London : legacies of migration. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. (In Press)

Abstract

This chapter examines two recent literary works – Tim Lott’s 1996 memoir The Scent of Dried Roses and Bhanu Kapil’s experimental work, published in 2015, Ban en Banlieue – that examine mental illness in the context of histories of migration to London suburbs. Focusing on Southall in West London, each text develops a reparative mode of writing that attends closely to the historical and material processes that have shaped suburban lives but renders suspect both conventional autobiographical narrative and comprehensive forms of analysis.

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