Visceral Cosmopolitanism

Mica Nava is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

• List of figures Acknowledgements I. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Cosmopolitanism, Everyday Culture and Structures of Feeling: The Intellectual Framework of the Book II. COSMOPOLITANISM AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE 1910s-1920s Chapter 2 The Allure of Difference: Selfridges, the Russian Ballet and the Tango Chapter 3 'The Big Shop Controversy': Ideological Communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge Dispute III. DIFFERENCE AND DESIRE IN 1930s-1940s Chapter 4 The Unconscious and Others: Inclusivity, Jews and the Eroticisation of Difference Chapter 5 White Women and Black Men: The Negro as Signifier of Modernity in Wartime Britain IV. COSMOPOLITANISM IN POSTCOLONIAL BRITAIN Chapter 6 Thinking Internationally, Thinking Sexually: Race in Postwar Fiction, Film and Social Science Chapter 7 Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: Romance, Race and the Reconfiguration of the Nation V. CONCLUSION: ACTUALLY EXISTING COSMOPOLITANISM Chapter 8 A Love Song to our Mongrel Selves: Cosmopolitan Habitus and the Ordinariness of Difference Bibliography Index

'Visceral Cosmopolitanism is highly recommended for students, providing historical specificity, insight and argument. This significant and ethical study offers the reader a real sense of hope in a field notorious for its tricky questions.' Times Higher Education'Mica Nava's explorations, sustained over many years, of neglected yet mundane features of relations and attitudes regarding the 'other' in Britain, is an important contribution to the analyses which challenge the reduction of the race question to a simple black and white issue. Her focus on the visceral and the vernacular in cosmopolitanism is a timely corrective to the abstract generalisations which today feed a resurgence of the demonisation of the other as part of geopolitical strategies for the securitisation of society.'Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent Univerity'In this readable and provocative book, Mica Nava traces a persistent expression of domestic cosmopolitanism in London throughout the twentieth century. Vi