Article: Postcolonial melancholia in Ian McEwan's Saturday.

Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) appeared within a week that saw the publication of a Guardian article by Leo Benedictus in which London was celebrated as "the most cosmopolitan place on earth," the home of "Every race, colour, nation and religion on earth." Benedictus illustrated this claim with an oversized, two-page map of London, charting fifty-two ethnic enclaves--from Jamaican and Somali to West African and Turkish--across the metropole. The accompanying article asserted that "never have so many different kinds of people tried living together in the same place before," and it detailed the varying attitudes, beliefs, social practices, and even the culinary practices that ...

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