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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckstein, Lars.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 121.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--Great Britain--History--21st century--Congresses.

English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

Ethnic arts--Great Britain--History--21st century--Congresses.

Minorities in art--Congresses.

Minorities in literature--Congresses.

Minorities in motion pictures--Congresses.

Multiculturalism in art--Congresses.

Multiculturalism--Great Britain--Congresses.

Great Britain--Cultural policy--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novelists Patrick Neate and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ showcases how artistic representations in literature, film, music and the visual arts reflect and respond to social and political discourses, and how they contribute to our understanding of the current (trans)cultural situation in Britain. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of writers such as Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay, Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, Nirpal Dhaliwal and Monica Ali; films ranging from Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice to Michael Winterbottom’s In This World and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men ; paintings and photography by innovative black and Asian British Artists; and dubstep music.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

A Divided Kingdom? Reflections on Multi-Ethnic Britain in the New Millennium / Lars Eckstein , Barbara Korte , Eva Ulrike Pirker and Christoph Reinfandt

The Little Book Of Tommy: Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation / Patrick Neate

The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism / Rajeev Balasubramanyam

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

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 Diaspora: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) / Cordula Lemke

Images of Muslim Britain Go Global: A Reading of the British Council’s Touring Exhibition Common Ground / Eva Ulrike Pirker

Female Views: Cultural Identity as a Key Issue in the Work of Black and Asian British Women Artists / Ingrid von Rosenberg

The Dub Renaissance – Reflections on the Aesthetics of Dub in Contemporary British Music / Christoph Härter

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

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 Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism (2006) / Ellen Dengel-Janic

‘Stop Thinking Like an Englishman’ or: Writing Against a Fixed Lexicon of 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

Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam / Angela Kurtz

Interview with Patrick Neate / Violeta Topalova

Index

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

"This volume emerges from a conference held in Freiburg im Breisgau in February 2007"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0658-9

1-4356-9514-3

OCLC:

302289422

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206587 DOI