Contents -- A Divided Kingdom? Reflections on Multi-Ethnic Britain in the New Millennium -- Writers' Views -- The Little Book Of Tommy: Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation -- The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism -- Film I: Beyond the Burden of Representation? -- Bridehood Revisited: Disarming Concepts of Gender and Culture in Recent Asian British Film -- Multi-Ethnic Britain on Screen: South Asian Diasporic Experience in Recent Feature Films -- Babylon North: British Muslims after 9/11 in Yasmin (2004) -- Fiction I: Multi-Ethnic Utopias and Dystopias -- Representations of Multicultural Society in Contemporary British Novels -- 'Sameness' in Contemporary British Fiction: (Metaphorical) Families in Zadie Smith's On Beauty (2005) -- Out of the Ordinary - and Back? Jackie Kay's Recent Short Fiction -- Teenage Transformations in Multi-Ethnic Britain: Rehana Ahmed's Walking a Tightrope (2004) -- Between Orthodoxy and Modernity: Mapping the Transcultural Predicaments of Pakistani Immigrants in Multi-Ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) -- Racism in the Diaspora: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) -- Visual Art and Music: Picturing and Sounding Identity -- Images of Muslim Britain Go Global: A Reading of the British Council's Touring Exhibition Common Ground -- Female Views: Cultural Identity as a Key Issue in the Work of Black and Asian British Women Artists -- The Dub Renaissance - Reflections on the Aesthetics of Dub in Contemporary British Music -- Film II: Borderlines and Contested Spaces -- Scapes of Refuge in Multicultural Britain: Representing Refugees in Digital Docudrama and Mockumentary -- '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).

Envisioning a Black Tomorrow? Black Mother Figures and the Issue of Representation in 28 Days Later (2003) and Children of Men (2006) -- Fiction II: Reading and Writing the Metropolis -- Escaping the Matrix: Illusions and Disillusions of Identity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) -- 'East is East and West is West': A Reading of Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006) -- 'Stop Thinking Like an Englishman' or: Writing Against a Fixed Lexicon of Terrorism in Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights (2005) -- 'A deconstructed shrine': Locating Absence and Relocating Identity in Rodinsky's Room (2000) -- 'Societies Within': Council Estates as Cultural Enclaves in Recent Urban Fictions -- Interviews -- Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam -- Interview with Patrick Neate -- Index -- Acknowledgements.