Acknowledgements

Introduction: Britishness and the Construction of Postcolonial Identities

Part I Centrifugus: (Neo-) Colonial Identities, Fictions and Discourses

Modernity and the Subject of National Identity

Settling Identities: Britishness Abroad

Soil: Repeat, Multiply, Address

Jean Rhys, ``Human Ants,'' and the Production of Expatriate Creole Identities

English Language Teaching Today: Are ``British Identities'' Relevant?

Part II Centripetus: Multiculturalism, Production and Social Dialectics

Imported Identities: The Making of a British Ruling Class

Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Reconstructing An Absent Nation

Staging John Bull: British Identity and Irish Drama

Subversive Modernity: Coleridge, Gothic Imagery, the ``Body Politic,'' and the Contestation of the Romantic Nation-State

Edwin Morgan, Contemporary British Poetry Publishing and British Multiculturalism

Industry and Identity: Filming the British Action Hero

Three (More) Women's Texts and a Critique of New Historicism: Self-Disciplinary Soul-Making in Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Charlotte Bronte

Rewriting Shakespeare and Englishness: George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra

The Religion of the English Bible: From Wycliffe to James I

Part III Hereafter: ``Britishness'' and New Cultural/Literatures

Reading the Motif of Captivity: Fragmentation or Unity in Remembering Babylon

Patrick White's Early Work: An Introduction to a Literary Puzzle

Beadless in a Foreign Land, or a Jouti of a New Kind: David Dabydeen's Turner

The Abject and Sublime: Enabling Conditions of New Zealand's Postcolonial Identity

Interrogating Identity in New Zealand Stage Plays

Nirad C. Chaudhuri's A Passage to England: A Site of Colonial Anxiety

Contributors