Rethinking identities : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium This volume sets out to re imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple heterogeneous forms of identity. Numerous studies of ethnic linguistic regional and religious identities have appeared but largely in isolation from one another. Rethinking Identities is a multi authored project that is original in providing in distributed and granular mode a hyper contemporary and wide ranging applied analysis that questions notions of identity based on nation and region language ethnicity gender sexuality religion or even the human. The volume achieves this by mobilizing various contexts of identity (gender ethnicity sexuality nation) and medium (art cinema literature music theatre video). Emphasizing the extreme contemporary (the twenty first century) and the challenges posed by an increasingly global society this collection of essays builds upon existing intellectual investigations of identity with the aim of offering a fresh perspective that transcends cognitive and geographical frontiers