The essays in Writing New Identities address the complexities, and explore the inter-relationships of na tionalisms, genders, and representational practices of the p eoples of the New Europe at the end of the 20th century. '
Part 1 Post/coloniality in the new Europe: Ethnicity on the French frontier, Winifred Woodhull; Narrative strategies and postcolonial identity in contemporary France: Leila Sebbar's "Les carnets de Sherazade", Francoise Lionnet; (Con)figuring identity: cultural space of the Indo-British border intellectual, Gita Rajan; Black British women writing the anti-imperialist critique , Carole Boyce Davies; Looking through non-western eyes: immigrant women's autobiographical narratives in Italian, Graziella Parati; Exile in the promised land: self-decolonization and bodily re-membering in Kne Bugul's "The abandoned baobab", Julia Watson". Part 2 The new Europe and its margins: Reclaiming space: Jewish women in Germany today, Karen Remmler; Hidden subjects, secret identities: figuring Jews, gypsies, and gender in 1990s cinema of eastern Europe, Catherine Portuges; Migrant's literature or German literature? Torkan's Tufan: "Brief an einen islamischen bruder", Leslie A. Adelson; Scheherazade's daughters: the thousand and one tales of Turkish-German women writers, Azade Seyhan; "Life from its very beginning at its end": the unhomely boundaries in the works of Bulgarian author Blaga Dimitrova, Hannelore Scholz; Exile, immigrant, re/unified: writing (east) postunification identity in Germany, Gisela Brinker-Gabler
