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place it squarely (and positively so) in the public realm of debates about governmentality, globality, and citizenship rights.
The three chapters in this book that examine sexuality from a postcolonial angle do so with reference to specific racial, ethnic and national communities. Building on postcolonial theory’s investigation into sexuality and the nation, Angelia Poon’s chapter foregrounds the complicitous relationship between sexual, national, and racial ideologies and their interlocking boundaries in Andrea Levy’s Small Island, a novel about white English men and women and Afro-Caribbean migrants during and after World War II. Poon shows in “Intimate Arrangements: Race, Sex and Englishness in Andrea Levy’s Small Island” how the portrayal of white female sexuality and the use of the trope of the double in Levy’s historical fiction are departures from many fictional representations of sexual relations between black men and white women and are central to her suggestion of new forms of Englishness and the nation.
Alistair Fox’s chapter examines the depiction of male homosexual experiences in both Māori and Pākehā (white) cultures in the postcolonial and contemporary space of New Zealand fiction. Paying attention to the specific cultural anxieties engendered by male homosexuality, Fox argues that despite their differences, both the puritanical repressiveness of Pākehā society and the homophobic tendencies of traditional Māori warrior culture lead to certain similar consequences in terms of the traumatic psychic and emotional toll exacted on the male homosexual subject in New Zealand.
Turning to postcolonial and metropolitan London, Jenni Ramone’s chapter investigates migrant sexualities and the mapping of spaces, in particular the mediation of female sexual desire through the symbolically significant twin acts of speaking English and walking the streets of London. Ramone’s discussion centers on two novels by diasporic women writers, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Only in London. She shows how the female immigrant protagonists of both novels negotiate the restrictions of each one’s specific community’s