Table of Contents

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 SCHÄBLER: 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 HÄRTER: 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 LAQUÉ: ‘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