TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THINKING BEYOND MODERN IDENTITIES -- HEADING TOWARDS A LIQUID IDENTITY -- QUESTIONING DIVERSITY -- CHALLENGING THE SELF -- INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURAL POLITICS -- PART II: REVISING OLD AND NEW REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN -- 'A CHICKEN OF A GENTLEMAN, AND A TIGER OF A LADY' -- IDENTITY AND GENDER POLICY -- BEAUTIFUL AND INEFFECTUAL ANGELS -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF FEMALE IDENTITY IN POPULAR CULTURE -- PART III: POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE NEW HYBIRD IDENTITIES -- BETWEEN DISCIPLINE AND DESIRE -- 'INDIAN PRINCESS/INDIAN SQUAW' -- THE POSTCOLONIAL COMING OF AGE OF CATALAN LITERATURE -- PART IV: NATION, DISCOURSE AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES -- A DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA, A UTOPIA CALLED COMMUNITY -- 'BRITS ON HOLS' -- THE PARANOID STYLE IN SPOOKS / MI-5 -- FICTION NARRATIVE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- PART FIVE: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN THE PRINT MEDIA -- THE SPECTACLE OF ENVY AND FAMININITY IN THE PRESS -- THE CHANGING IDENTITY OF BRITISH BROADSHEETS -- INTERSEMIOTIC TRANSLATIONS OF NEWS TEXTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF A GLOBAL IMAGE OF MODERNITY -- CONTRIBUTORS.