identity and culture

CONTENTS
SERIES  EDITOR’S  FOREWORD vii
PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION 1
|| SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY 5 1
‘Hey, you there!’ 5
Subjectivity and the subject 9
Class, ideology, identity 10
Language and the split subject 12
The importance of the visual 13
Subjectivity, discourse and power 17
Subjectivity and identity: the local and the global 19
Further reading 21
|| HISTORY,  NATION  AND  IDENTITY 22 2
The question of history 28
The changing face of Britain 31
The Parekh report in the press 32
Conclusion 43
Further reading 44
|| HISTORY,  VOICE  AND  REPRESENTATION:  ABORIGINAL  WOMEN’S  LIFE  WRITING 46 3
History, voice and identity 49
Voicing Aboriginal women’s experience 50
Conclusion 57
Further reading 60
|| NARRATIVES  OF  IDENTITY  AND  DIFFERENCE:  VOICING  BLACK  BRITISH  HISTORY 61 4
Migration to Britain: the Windrushgeneration 68
Second generation writers and the migrant experience 71
Identity and belonging 74
New forms of resistance 78
Mixed-race identity 80
Rewriting history 81
Conclusion 83
Further reading 84
|| IDENTITY,  ORIGINS  AND  ROOTS 85 5
Biblical and ‘scientific’ myths of origin: the white identity movement in
the United States 93
The battle for the meaning of the flag 99
Further reading 103
|| DIASPORIC  IDENTITIES:  SOUTH  ASIAN  BRITISH  WOMEN’S  WRITING 104 6
Further reading 115
|| VISUALIZING  DIFFERENCE:  SOUTH  ASIANS  ON  SCREEN 116 7
The deconstructive potential of comedy 126
Further reading 132
|| COMPETING  CULTURES,  COMPETING  VALUES 133 8
The contradictions 138
Belief versus reason: Islamophobia in the West 144
Conclusion 152
Further reading 153
CONCLUDING  REFLECTIONS 154
NOTES 160
GLOSSARY 164
BIBLIOGRAPHY 168
INDEX 175