Chapter 1 ‘Our Eastern Costume Created a Sensation’: Sartorial Encounters in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Travelogues by South Asian Writers

Chapter 2 The ‘Sartorially Undesirable “Other”’ in Post-War South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man

Chapter 3 ‘It Was Stylish and “in” to Be Eastern’? Subversive Dress in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Chapter 5 ‘She Had Her Hijab Pulled Off’: Dressed Bodies Do Matter in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane