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DEVOLVING DIASPORAS is a three-year project (2007-2010) investigating the relationship between reading, location, and migration.

Working with libraries and book groups in Scotland (our primary research site), England, Canada, Africa and India we are interested in how various readers in different places respond to contemporary narratives of movement, migration and diaspora.

These narratives include:

» Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)
» Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004)
» Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2001)
» Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers (1991)*

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