Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Foreword / Susanne Reichl -- Acknowledgements / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Notes on Contributors / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Introduction Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Part 1 Youth, Home and Belonging / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Chapter 1 Evil Children of the DiasporaAndrea Levy's "Deborah" / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez -- Chapter 2 "the world was a strange place to be caught living in" / Gérald Préher -- Chapter 3 The Postcolonial Adolescent in Roshi Fernando's Homesick / Carmen Lara-Rallo -- Part 2 Youth, Nation and Narration / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Chapter 4 Growing Up Multiply / Isabel Carrera-Suárez and Carla Rodríguez-González -- Chapter 5 Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin's Stories for Young Readers / Laura Torres-Zúñiga -- Chapter 6 "A Right Little Good Little Indian Girl, Are You" / Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas -- Part 3 Youth, Dislocation and Transformation / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Chapter 7 Multicultural Adolescence and Its Identitary Vicissitudes in Contemporary British Short Stories / Jorge Sacido-Romero -- Chapter 8 From "Partial Presence" to "Disruptive Impurity" / Karima Thomas -- Chapter 9 "I'm the Only One" / Bettina Jansen -- Part 4 Youth, Religion and Global Politics / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Chapter 10 The Virgin's Consent / Claire Chambers and Indrani Karmakar -- Chapter 11 Reading for Resilience / Blanka Grzegorczyk -- Chapter 12 "Growing Up with Anxiety(ies)" / Noemí Pereira-Ares -- Index / Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez , Jorge Sacido-Romero , and Noemí Pereira-Ares.

The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature-and of the short story genre, in particular-to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.

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