Identity And Culture: Narratives Of Difference And Belonging: Narratives of Difference and BelongingIdentity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, ‘postcolonial’ societies. This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY | 5 |
Chapter 2 HISTORY NATION AND IDENTITY | 22 |
ABORIGINAL WOMENS LIFE WRITING | 46 |
VOICING BLACK BRITISH HISTORY | 61 |
Chapter 5 IDENTITY ORIGNS AND ROOTS | 85 |
SOUTH ASIAN BRITISH WOMENS WRITING | 104 |
SOUTH ASIANS ON SCREEN | 116 |
Chapter 8 COMPETING CULTURES COMPETING VALUES | 133 |
Concluding reflections | 154 |
Notes | 160 |
Glossary | 164 |
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Back cover | 178 |
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