Table of Contents

Contents: Fernando Galvan/Julio Canero Serrano/Jose Santiago Fernandez Vazquez: Cultural Studies and the Politics of (Mis)Representation - Jose Manuel Estevez Saa: Anthropological vs Literary Impulse in the Framework of Cultural Representations - Juergen Schlaeger: Mis-Representing the City - Felicity Hand: The Amritsar Massacre or the Beginning of the End of the Raj - Dora Sales Salvador: Forms, Representations and Voices: Cultural Liminality in Vikram Chandra's Fiction - Jonathan P. A. Sell: The Olive, the Arquebus, and the Lion: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Literature - Graham Keith Gregor/Encarna Vidal Rodriguez: 'Termon, from Terminus, the God of Boundaries': Brian Friel's Translations and the Remapping of Ireland - Melania Terrazas: (Mis)Representing British Working Classes: The Despicable (Mis)Use of Power of Vincent Penhale in Percy Wyndham Lewis' The Vulgar Streak - Cristina Sanchez Carretero: Popular Uses of Popular Culture: Power and Social Class in Public Performances of Fictional Characters - Camila Loew: Miss Represented: Women at War Propaganda vs Autobiographical Writing - Ana Garcia Arroyo: Same-Sex Love in India: Images from Ancient, Medieval and Modern Texts - Francisco A. Lomeli: Remapping the Post-Barrio: Beyond Turf and Graffiti - Julio Canero Serrano: Politics of 'Chingando': Chicano Political Misrepresentation in Heart of Aztlan and Alburquerque - Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger: (Mis)Representations of the Fetichized Chicano: Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Work in the Context of the Latino Backlash and the Global Spectacle of Identity - Carmen Flys: Misrepresenting the Hard-Boiled Tradition: Community vs Individualism in Contemporary Ethnic Detectives - Chris Weedon: Putting the Record Straight: Representing the Black Experience in Post-War Britain - Maria Duenas: Misrepresentations of Cultural Minorities and Controversial Social Issues in English as a Foreign Language Textbooks - Edia Cristina Pinho: Princes and Frogs in the Land of Broken Promises: (Mis)Representations of Teaching and Teachers - Mercedes Bengoechea: Some Considerations on Power and Mis-Representation in the Linguistic Debates and Educational Polices of the 80's in England and Wales - Celia Roberts: Language Ideologies in Institutional Life: Turning Talk into Misrepresentation - David Walton: Cultural Studies: A Critical Bibliography of Some Recent Publications.

About the Author

The Editors: Fernando Galvan is Professor of English at the University of Alcala (Madrid, Spain), and a current member of the Board of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English). He has also been President of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) during the period 1996-2002. Julio Canero Serrano is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Alcala. He has published widely on cultural studies and American literature. He is currently a member of the Board of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies. Jose Santiago Fernandez Vazquez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Alcala. His research covers English fiction and postcolonial studies. He has recently published two books on the use of Bildungsroman in European and postcolonial literatures.