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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part I: Interviews 2. Observing Ourselves among Others, Interview with Meena Alexander Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 3. Pedagogical Alternatives: Issues in Postcolonial Studies, Interview with Gauri Viswanathan Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 4. Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology, Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part II: Commentaries 5. African-Americans and the New Immigrants Amritjit Singh 6. Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity M.G. Vassanji 7. Mullahs, Sex, and Bureaucrats: Pakistan's Confrontations with the Modern World Sohail Inayatullah 8. Coming to Terms with the "Postcolonial" Deepika Bahri Part III: Studies in the Media and Popular Culture 9. An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Ranita Chatterjee 10. Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala Binita Mehta 11. From Ritual Drama to National Prime Time: Mahabharata, India's Televisual Obsession Sanjoy Majumder 12. Television, Politics, and the Epic Heroine: Case Study, Sita Mahasveta Barua Part IV: Literary Criticism 13. Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Sukeshi Kamra 14. Style Is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days Samir Dayal 15. Redefining the Postcolonial Female Self: Women in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day Pushpa Naidu Parekh 16. "Luminous Brahmin Children Must Be Saved": Imperialist Ideologies, "Postcolonial" Histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter Indrani Mitra 17. The Troubled Past: Literature of Severing the Viewer/Viewed Dialectic Huma Ibrahim Part V: Experimental Critiques 18. Jane Austin in Meerut, India Amitava Kumar 19. Border Crossings: Retrieval and Erasure of the Self as Other Shantanu DuttaAhmed 20. I see the Glass as Half Full Uma Parameswaran About the Contributors
Summary
Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live 'between the lines' on and between borders, this book reinstates questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance.
