Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+

Abstract

Lars ECKSTEIN, Barbara KORTE, Eva Ulrike PIRKER, Christoph REINFANDT: A Divided Kingdom? Reflections on Multi-Ethnic Britain in the New Millennium Writers' Views Patrick NEATE: The Little Book of Tommy: Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation Rajeev BALASUBRAMANYAM: The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism Film I: Beyond the Burden of Representation? Ellen DENGEL-JANIC and Lars ECKSTEIN: Bridehood Revisited: Disarming Concepts of Gender and Culture in Recent Asian British Film Sandra HEINEN: Multi-Ethnic Britain on Screen: South Asian Diasporic Experience in Recent Feature Films Claudia STERNBERG: Babylon North: British Muslims after 9/11 in Yasmin (2004) Fiction I: Multi-Ethnic Utopias and Dystopias Lucie GILLET: Representations of Multicultural Society in Contemporary British Novels Sabine NUNIUS: 'Sameness' in Contemporary British Fiction: (Metaphorical) Families in Zadie Smith's On Beauty (2005) Ulrike ZIMMERMANN: Out of the Ordinary - and Back? Jackie Kay's Recent Short Fiction Daniel SCHABLER: Teenage Transformations in Multi-Ethnic Britain: Rehana Ahmed's Walking a Tightrope (2004) Nadia BUTT: Between Orthodoxy and Modernity: Mapping the Transcultural Predicaments of Pakistani Immigrants in Multi-Ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Cordula LEMKE: Racism in the Disapora: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Visual Art and Music: Picturing and Sounding Identity Eva Ulrike PIRKER: Images of Muslim Britain Go Global: A Reading of the British Council's Touring Exhibition Common Ground Ingrid VON ROSENBERG: Female Views: Cultural Identity as a Key Issue in the Work of Black and Asian British Women Artists Christoph HARTER: The Dub Renaissance - Reflections on the Aesthetics of Dub in Contemporary British Music Film II: Borderlines and Contested Spaces Sissy HELFF: Scapes of Refuge in Multicultural Britain: Representing Refugees in Digital Docudrama and Mockumentary Kathy-Ann TAN: '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) Barbara KORTE: Envisioning a Black Tomorrow? Black Mother Figures and the Issue of Representation in 28 Days Later (2003) and Children of Men (2006) Fiction II: Reading and Writing the Metropolis Michael MITCHELL: Escaping the Matrix: Illusions and Disillusions of Identity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) Ellen DENGEL-JANIC: 'East is East and West is West': A Reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006) Yvonne ROSENBERG: 'Stop Thinking like an Englishman' or: Writing Against a Fixed Lexicon of Terrorism in Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights (2005) Stephan LAQUE: 'A deconstructed shrine': Locating Absence and Relocating Identity in Rodinsky's Room (2000) Susanne CUEVAS: 'Societies Within': Council Estates as Cultural Enclaves in Recent Urban Fictions Interviews Angela KURTZ: Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam Violeta TOPALOVA: Interview with Patrick Neate Index Acknowledgements