Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Key to the Capital -- 2 London North-West: The Broader Borders of Metropolitan Canadianness -- 3 London South-West: Caribbean Fiction and Metropolitan Life -- 4 London South-East: Metropolitan (Un) realities in Indian Fiction -- 5 London Centre: The Familial Urban World of Recent 'Black British' Writing -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary
Imagining London examines representations of the English metropolis in Canadian, West Indian, South Asian, and second-generation 'black British' novels written in the last half of the twentieth century