Postcolonial youth in contemporary British fiction The concepts of youth and the postcolonial both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature and of the short story genre in particular to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés Cuevas Isabel Carrera Suárez Claire Chambers Blanka Grzegorczyk Bettina Jansen Indrani Karmakar Carmen Lara Rallo Laura María Lojo Rodríguez Noemí Pereira Ares Gérald Préher Susanne Reichl Carla Rodríguez González Jorge Sacido Romero Karima Thomas and Laura Torres Zúñiga