New Postcolonial British Genres

Sarah Ilott is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. Her main research and teaching interests are in postcolonial literature and twenty-first century British literature. She has published journal articles on postcolonial literature and multicultural screen comedy, and has taught at Lancaster University – where she gained her PhD in 2013 – as well as at the University of Birmingham.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Remapping Borders: Postcolonial Britain and Literary/Cinematic Genres 1. British Muslim Bildungsromane 2. Gothic Tales of Postcolonial England 3. The Subcultural Urban Novel 4. Multicultural British Comedy/The Comedy of Multicultural Britain Conclusion: Genre Revisited Bibliography Index