| Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
The Repetition of Silence: Partition, Rape, and Female Labor in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
by Lopamudra Basu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Meena Alexander's Transgressive / Diasporic Female Characters: Healing Wounds and Fracturing the Iconic Feminine and the Language of the Colonizer
by M. Dolores Herrero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Negotiating Nationalism(s): Hindi Poetry During and After the Colonial Period
by Akshaya Kumar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Recasting Muslim Women: Nawab Faizunnesa's RupJalal
by Fayeza Hasanat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 76 |
A Herald of Religious Unity: Rabindranath Tagore's Literary Representation of Muslims by Mohammad A. Quayum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Globalization and the Deepening Indian-U.S. Partnership in an Age of Entrenched Anti-Americanism by Geoffrey Kain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Alternate Visions of a Feminine Space in Clear Light of Day and The God of Small Things by Sharmita Lahiri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Family Portraits and National Histories: Nayantara Sahgal's Constructions of Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru by Anna Guttman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam's "The Goodess of Revenge" and Ismat Chugtai's "Lihaaf" by Asha Sen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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What's In a Name? Tropes of Belonging and Identity in The Namesake by Aparajita De. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 182 |
The Cosmopolitics of Translation: Reading Lalithambika Antherjanam by Nalini Iyer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 201 |
Performing Narrative: The Motif of Performance in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things by Parama Sarkar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Translating Modernity: Colonial Modernity and the Modern Child in Early Children's Literature in Kannada by Sowmya Dechamma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Book Reviews
Judith Plotz, In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India;
and Travels, Tales, and Encounters in Sindh and Balochistan. . . . . . |
261 |
| Shanta Acharya, Collected Poems: 1970-2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 265 |
| Sachidananda Mohanty, Two Mirrors at the Ashram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 268 |
Jean W. Sedlar, Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in
Southeast Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
270 |
Gayatri Devi, Abiding by Sri Landa: On Peace, Place and
Postcoloniality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
274 |
| Rejender Kaur, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 279 |
Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 290 |