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Introduction -- The writer's niche. A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and 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 -- Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu -- The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bertolini -- Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty -- Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future) / Chris Larkosh -- The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley -- Past the point of no return : Fiji Indian divinations on exile and homeland / Seri I Luangphinith -- Teaching diaspora literature in a non-secular setting / Moumin Quazi -- Comparative diasporas. India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land / Saunak Samajdar -- Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora / Sitara Thobani -- 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.

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