TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- "DOWN AMONG THE CANNIBALS" -- ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AND THE BOER WAR -- "THE RANKNESS OF ENGLISH PAVEMENTS" -- ALBERT THE IDIOT AND THE EMPIRE OF CARNIVAL -- IDENTITY LOST AND FOUND -- UNDER MILK WOOD -- "IDENTITY IS A SLIPPERY FISH" -- TRANSFORMATRIX -- NOTES TO PART I -- PART II -- THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS' QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN TONI MORRISON'S SONG OF SOLOMON -- LITERATURE OF RESISTANCE -- A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE CAJUN IDENTITY IN ERNEST GAINES'S BLOODLINE -- STEREOTYPES VS. HUMANTYPES -- GREEK MYTHS AS SYMBOLS OF ETHNIC HERITAGE AND SOURCES OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN ARIADNE THOMPSON'S THE OCTAGONAL HEART -- INTERTEXTUAL COMMUNITIES -- IDENTITY CROSSINGS -- A HOUSE OF CARDS -- DE-HYPHENATING SELF AND TRANS-ING OTHER IN FRED WAH'S DIAMOND GRILL -- NOTES TO PART II -- CONTRIBUTORS.