| Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 3 |
| Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 5 |
Secularism and its Saffron Flags
by Manisha Basu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Queering the Subaltern: Reading Postcolonial Performativity through Mahesh Dattani's Seven Steps Around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi's and Usha Ganguly's Rudali by Kanika Batra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Reconciliations: Between Rural and Urban in Tagore's Prose Poems by Promita Chatterji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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"Ekhaney amra shobai Bangla? Anyhere not speak Bengali?" Dis/covering South Asian-ness in London's The Brick Lane by Purna Chowdhury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Queering Postcolonial Hybridity in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night
by Shompaballi Datta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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"The Ancestral Eyes" and the Poetry of Keki Daruwalla and Jayanta Mahapatra
by Devinder Devdeep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Bibi's Babel: Treating "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar" as the Malady of Interpreters
by Brewster E. Fitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Reconfiguring Wor(l)ds: Rushdie Redefines Linguistic Boundaries by Gillian Gane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and the Blurring of National Boundaries
by John C. Hawley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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"Class Acts and Counterhistories": A. Sivanandan's When Memory Dies
by Maryse Jayasuriya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Domestic Violence and the Recasting of "Home" and "Diaspora" in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
by Priya Jha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Gendered Border Crossings: Amitav Ghosh's Cosmopolitan Limits
by Priti Joshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Constructing a Narrative, Constructing a Nation: Cultural Translation on the Post-Colonial Indian Stage
by Parmita Kapadia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh: Politics of Migrancy and the Portrayal of Feminist Struggles in Bombay by Bharati Kasibhatla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Victorian Reaction to British India: The Case of Tennyson and Ruskin by Jalal Uddin Khan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Transnationalism as Hybridization in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
by Nyla Ali Khan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Question of Ethical Singularity and the Problematic of Class in Abdullah Al-Mamun's Kokilara
by Saiyeda Khatun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Reading Mahashweta Devi in the Time of Call Centers
by Nivedita Majumdar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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A Special Enchantment in Lines: Amitav Ghosh's Postnational Geographies
by J. Edward Mallot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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"My Country" Isn't a Notion That Comes Easily: Narratives of "Home" in the Work of Hanif Kureishi
by Ruth Maxey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Lost in Translation: Mahasweta Devi's Hazzar Chaurasi ki Maa and The Mother of 1084
by Nirmala Menon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Interpreter of Names: Ties between Names, Cultural Dislocation and Search for Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
by Sophia Mitra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Linguistic Border Crossings; Kolatkar's Postcolony in Mumbai, India
by Anjali Nerlekar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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How Maps Lie: A Reading of The Shadow Lines
by Rani Neutill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Reading Nationhood, Gender, and Identity in the Novels of Anita Desai
by Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Bollywood in New York Post-9/11: An Analysis of Kal Ho Na Ho
by Blair Orfall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Firanghis and Foreigners: Exile and the Formation of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay
by Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Transnationalism and its Discontents: Sexual Transgression and Self-Possession in Samina Ali's Madras on Rainy Days and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
by Summer Pervez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 31 |
The Politics of Dalit Identity: Between the National and the Global
by Anuradha Ramanujan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Face of History: Anil's Ghost
by Ziba Rashidian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Contesting Boundaries and Claiming Spaces: Gender and Nationalism in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
by Nadeea Saeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Transnationalism, Women and Home: Monica Ali's Brick Lane
by Asma Sayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Anita Rao Badami's The Hero's Walk
by Maya M. Sharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Politics of Cultural Identity in Mulk Raj Anand's The Bubble
by K. D. Verma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Migrant-Shaped Hole: The New Transnationalism of Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk
by Scott D. Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Discontented Reader and Cultural Translation in the Poetry of Richard de Zoysa
by Ian Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Rohinton Mistry, Honore de Balzac and the Realist Novel of Social Critique
by Ayelet Ben-Yishai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Policing the Potential Bride's Body: Contemporary Writers Sow Seeds of Change
by Bonnie Zare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Poetry Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Conference Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 65 |
| Membership Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 75 |
| Conference Registration Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 77 |