This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer's novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins' memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an internationally recognised theorist in colonial and postcolonial writing, applies her concept of 'mixedness' to characterisation and incident, using...

This interview with the author of The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History, a work of impressive originality and admirable comprehensiveness, focuses on problems relating to the processes of writing social history and of writing on a subject that continues to retain considerable emotional power in South Africa, in which the events in the book...

This essay analyses Leila Aboulela's narrative techniques when depicting a Muslim “who has faith†in her two most recent novels. In Minaret she presents religion as a source of strength for her female narrator-protagonist but also suggests that Muslim women of faith should adopt a quietist retreat from public life in order to nourish their spiritual life. In Ly...