Between the lines: South Asians and postcoloniality

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