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