What’s in a Name?
- Author Sheela Banerjee
- Narrator Sheela Banerjee
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date 3 August 2023
- Run Time 9 hours and 27 minutes
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- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, Social and cultural history, Social groups and identities.
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'Our names reveal a multitude of stories, reveal feelings, states of consciousness and lost histories that embody who we really are and where we come from . . . This is a personal journey to reveal the worlds which gave rise to what we are called'
Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents.
In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
Blending history, memoir and politics, What's in a Name? is a celebration of Britain's rich multiculturalism, an ode to friendship and a testament to all the stories held within our names.
(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
| Author | Sheela Banerjee |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Sheela Banerjee |
| Duration | 9 hours and 27 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529367614 |
| Format | x-book® |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Genre | Biography and non-fiction prose, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, Social and cultural history, Social groups and identities |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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