Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Tourism, Self-Representation and National Identity in Post-Socialist Hungary / Irén Annus -- Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore / Audrey Verma -- Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth-Century Drama / Helen Vella Bonavita -- How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other / Lelia Green and Anne Aly -- Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation / Ron Geaves -- Choosing to Be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile / Oana Elena Strugaru -- Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces / Joshua Getz -- The Breaking Asunder of Fanny Kemble: Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 / Winter Werner -- Ancient Egypt as Europe’s ‘Intimate Stranger’ / Kevin M. DeLapp -- Fictions of a Creole Nation: (Re)Presenting Portugal’s Imperial Past / Elsa Peralta.

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The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the concept of personal and national identity. This interdisciplinary collection of papers, published for the first time, provide a stimulating and varied set of insights into the ongoing conversation that maps identity.