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Monica Ali

Issue August 2009

Did I Know Enough to Be British?

Is literature interwoven with the building and maintaining of national identity? That rather begs the question: What is national identity? It’s a question that we’ve become obsessed with in Britain, especially since the introduction in 2005 of the citizenship test for immigrants applying for a U.K. passport. The government-published book, Life in the United Kingdom, that applicants have to study, gives some key historical information (about the Magna…… More »

Issue August 2009

Border Crossings

Does a national literature still have meaning in an age of open borders and polyglot cultures?… More »

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