Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country
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Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country

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Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country

About this book

From Banks's brewery's yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between olfaction and place-specific memory.

Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell, language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright, and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity. Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction: The Making of the Black Country
  4. 2. Wolverhampton Central Library, Children’s Library, 1980s
  5. 3. Goldthorn Park via the Dudley Road
  6. 4. The Future Is Elsewhere: Contemporary Black Country Writing
  7. 5. Methyl Methacrylate and the Great Wolverhampton Novel
  8. 6. Dancing with Dad
  9. 7. Smell and Memory in the Black Country: The Snidge Scrumpin’ Experiments
  10. 8. What Does a Black Country Childhood Smell of?
  11. 9. The Smell of Black Country ‘chai’
  12. 10. ‘Pack up Your Blarting’: The Language of the Senses in Black Country Dialect
  13. 11. Goo An’ Fetch the Tundish
  14. 12. Bella
  15. 13. The Rise of Black Countryness: Place-Identity and the Black Country
  16. 14. We Try to Keep Sunday Best, Though Mom Hates Sundays
  17. 15. An Idea Once Crystalised
  18. 16. Olfactory Pathways to Black Country Futures
  19. 17. Snidge
  20. 18. Conclusion: The Futures of the Black Country—A Manifesto
  21. Back Matter