Indian writers: transnationalisms and diasporas/ Jaspal K. Singh & Rajendra Chetty, editors

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly & the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De -- Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel -- The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Diasporas and women. "I want to be surprised when I hear your voice" : who speaks for Jasmine / Ryan Paul Singh -- Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu -- The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bartolini -- Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty -- Reading ' South Asia' in dangerous times (and other lessons from the future) / Christopher Larkosh -- The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley -- Of exile and return : exploring Fiji-Indian literary metaphors / Seri Inthava Luangphinith -- Comparative diasporas. Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing / Peter Simatei -- Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside? / James Gifford.