Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism

1. Introduction Backgrounds: Facts and Fictions of Multicultural London
Michael Perfect

2. Multiculturalism and the Work of Hanif Kureishi
Michael Perfect

3. ‘Fold the paper and pass it on’: Andrea Levy’s London Fiction
Michael Perfect

4. Multicultural London in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000): A Celebration of Unpredictability and Uncertainty?
Michael Perfect

5. Permanence and Transience: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) and In the Kitchen (2009)
Michael Perfect

6. Mis-marketing Multiculturalism? Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani (2006)
Michael Perfect

7. London as a Safe Haven? Asylum, Immigration and Missing Fingers in Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand (2008) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009)
Michael Perfect

8. London as a ‘Brutal’, ‘Hutious’ City: Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011)
Michael Perfect

9. Coda: The Prophet’s Graveyard
Michael Perfect

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary History