The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britains experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (EU) have had a marked influence on British ideas about and British literatures depiction of the city and urban contexts. Recent British fiction focuses in particular on cities as intertwined with globalization and global capitalism (including the proliferation of media) and with issues of immigration and migration. Indeed, decolonization has brought large numbers of people from former colonies to Britain, thus making British cities ever more diverse. Such mixing of peoples in urban areas has led to both racist fears and possibilities of cosmopolitan co-existence.
1. Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City: Magali Cornier Michael.- 2. Why Should You Go Out? : Encountering the City in Monica Alis Brick Lane: Nick Bentley.- 3. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Urban England?: Jon McGregors If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Magali Cornier Michael.- 4 We exist only in the reflection of others : Imagining Londons History in Bernadine Evaristos The Emperors Babe: Nicola Allen.- 5. Gated Communities and Dystopia in J.G. Ballards Super-Cannes: Francesco Di Bernardo.- 6. Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in Zadie Smiths White Teeth and Martin Amis Lionel Asbo: State of England: Megan Faragher.- 7. Belonging and Un-belonging in London: Representations of Home il«
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