"This volume emerges from a conference held in Freiburg im Breisgau in February 2007"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A divided kingdom? : reflections on multi-ethnic Britain in the new millennium / Lars Eckstein ... [et al.] -- The little book of Tommy : another Tommy Akhtar investigation / Patrick Neate -- The rhetoric of multi-culturalism / Rajeev Balasubramanyam -- Film 1 : beyond the burden of representation? : Bridehood revisited : disarming concepts of gender and culture in recent Asian British film / Ellen Dengel-Janic and Lars Eckstein ; Multi-ethnic Britain on screen : South Asian diasporic experience in recent feature films / Sandra Heinen ; Babylon North : British Muslims after 9/11 in Yasmin (2004) / Claudia Sternberg -- Fiction 1 : Multi-ethnic utopias and dystopias. Representations of multicultural society in contemporary British novels / Lucie Gillet ; 'Sameness' in contemporary British fiction : (metaphorical) families in Zadie Smith's On beauty (2005) / Sabine Nunius ; Out of the ordinary-- and back? : Jackie Kay's recent short fiction / Ulrike Zimmermann ; Teenage transformations in multi-ethnic Britain : Rehana Ahmed's Walking a tightrope (2004) / Daniel Schäbler ; Between orthodoxy and modernity : mapping the transcultural predicaments of Pakistani immigrants in multi-ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers (2004) / Nadia Butt ; Racism in the disapora : Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers (2004) / Cordula Lemke -- Visual art and music : picturing and sounding identity. Images of Muslim Britain go global : a reading of the British Council touring exhibition Common Ground / Eva Ulrike Pirker ; Female views : cultural identity as a key issue in the work of black and Asian women artists / Ingrid von Rosenberg ; The Dub Renaissance : reflections on the aesthetics of Dub in contemporary British music -- Film 2 : Borderlines and contested spaces. Scapes of refuge in multicultural Britain : representing refugees in digital docudrama and mockumentary / Sissy Helff ; 'If you're not on paper, you don't exist' : depictions of illegal immigration and asylum in film-- on Michael Winterbottom's In this world (2002) and Code 46 (2003) / Kathy-Ann Tan ; Envisioning a black tomorrow? : black mother figures and the issue of representation in 28 days later (2003) and Children of men (2006) / Barbara Korte -- Fiction 2 : Reading and writing the metropolis. Escaping the matrix : illusions and disillusions of identity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) / Michael Mitchell ; 'East is east and west is west' : a reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006) / Ellen Dengel-Janic ; 'Stop thinking like and Englishman' or Writing against a fixed lexicon or terrorism in Patrick Neate's City of tiny lights (2005) / Yvonne Rosenberg ; 'A deconstructed shrine' : locating absence and relocating identity in Rodinsky's Room (2000) / Stephan Laqué ; 'Societies within' : council estates as cultural enclaves in recent urban fictions / Susanne Cuevas -- Interviews. Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam / Angela Kurtz ; Interview with Patrick Neate / Violeta Topalova.
Series:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 121
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