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Original publisher’s sewn blue paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 262pp., 15 contributions, footnotes & references, works cited, notes on contributors. CONTENTS: Introduction. Ralph J. Crane & Radhika Mohanram: Constructing the Diasporic Body. 1. Ralph J. Crane: Who … am … I? Displacement and identity in Leena Dhingra’s Amritvela. 2. Chandani Lokugé: We must laugh at one another, or die. Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies and South-Asian migrant identities. 3. Satendra Nandan: Migration, Dispossession, Exile and the Diasporic Consciousness. The body politic of Fiji. 4. Nilufer E. Bharucha: Imaging the Parsi Diaspora. Narratives on the wings of fire. 5. Susheila Nasta: Homes Without Walls. South-Asian writing in Britain. 6. Debjani Ganguly: Transgressing Sacred Visions. Taslima, Rushdie and the Indian subcontinent. 7. C. Vijayasree: Alter-Nativity, Migration, Marginality and Narrative. The case of Indian women writers settled in the West. 8. Zohreh T. Sullivan: Managing Migrancy. Narratives of exile and diaspora from Aimé Césaire to Bharati Mukherjee. 9. Susan Speary: Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures. Spatial odysseys in diaspora writing. 10. Radhika Mohanram: Postcoloniality and the Canon. Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World. 11. R. Raj Rao: Because most people marry their own kind. A reading of Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy. 12. Jane Roscoe: From Bombay to Blackpool. The construction of Indian femininity in Bhaji on the Beach. 13. Isabel Santaolalla: Cinematic Journeys to Insular England. Horace Ové’s Playing Away and Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach. Afterword. 14. Makarand Paranjape: What About Those Who Stayed Back Home? Interrogating the privileging of diasporic writing. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 42: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.