Imaginary Europes

Elisabeth Bekers is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium. She researches literature from Africa and its diaspora, and currentlyfocuses on black British women's writing. Her publications include the co-edited volumesTranscultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009) and Brussel schrijven/Écrire Bruxelles (2016).Maggie Ann Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University ofPortsmouth, UK. Her research covers contemporary postcolonial studies, focusing particularlyon Native American studies and comparative multi-ethnic literatures of NorthAmerica. She is the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004). Her recent research has examinedthe links between storytelling, ritual, and law and sovereignty in Native American writing.Sissy Helff is a freelance anglicist with a broad range of interests in Anglophone worldliterature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history, and politics. Herrecent book, Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction ofthe Diaspora (2012), is an overview of Indian diasporic women's writing from around theworld.