The special issue Postcolonial Europe: Transcultural and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, «Social Identities», vol. 17., n.1, 2011, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Bolette B. Blaagaard, is available on http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932485901
This special issue approaches feminist, postcolonial and race theory from different cultural, disciplinary and national backgrounds. The contributors engage with the question of what makes Europe postcolonial and how memory, whiteness and religion figure in representations and manifestations of European ‘identity’ and selfperception.
It is the output of the ‘Postcolonial Europe’ working group, coordinated by Sandra Ponzanesi and Bolette B. Blaagaard, operating under Athena3, the Advanced Thematic Network of Women’s Studies in Europe (http://www.athena3.org/).
INDEX
Introduction
In the name of Europe
Sandra Ponzanesi; Bolette B. Blaagaard
Outbound: geographical margins, historical cores
Negotiating white Icelandic identity: multiculturalism and colonial identity formations
Kristín Loftsdóttir
Asylum seekers as Austria’s other: the re-emergence of Austria’s colonial past in a state-of-exception
Brigitte Hipfl; Daniela Gronold
Spelling out exclusion in Southern Italy
Claudia Buonaiuto; Marie-Hélène Laforest
Whose freedom? Whose memories? Commemorating Danish colonialism in St. Croix
Bolette B. Blaagaard
Deconstructing Europe: conviviality and invisibility
Europe in motion: migrant cinema and the politics of encounter
Sandra Ponzanesi
Multiculturalism in a selection of English and Spanish fiction and artworks
Lourdes López Ropero; Alejandra Moreno Álvarez
Adrift on the black Mediterranean diaspora: African migrant writing in Spain
Esther Sánchez-Pardo
‘Rented spaces’: Italian postcolonial literature
Manuela Coppola
‘Dubbing di diaspora’: gender and reggae music inna Babylon
Sonia Sabelli
Coda
Workings of whiteness: interview with Vron Ware
Bolette B. Blaagaard
Book review
Engendering the State. The international diffusion of women’s human rights
Elisabeth Porter
