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Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+, new perspectives in literature, film and the arts, edited by Lars Eckstein ... [et al.]

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+

edited by Lars Eckstein ... [et al.]

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 121

new perspectives in literature, film and the arts

Writers' views. 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 Schabler; 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 Laque; '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