Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: Editors' Preface; Meenakshi Mukherjee: Fiction in English in a Multi-lingual Society; Maryam Khozan and Charles Lock: Touching the Untouchable: On the Reception of Indian Fiction in England in the 1930s; Martin Leer: Odologia Indica: The Significance of Railways in Anglo-Indian and Indian Fiction in English; Nanette Hale: 'As if time were telescoped and space dove-tailed': Chronotopicity in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet; Peter Morey: Terrible Beautification: Body Politics in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance; Minoli Salgado: Complexity and the Migrant Writer: Chaotics in Michael Ondaatje's Fiction; Benedict Maher: 'Not Quite/Not White/Not Right': A Discussion of Bhabian Mimicry in Relation to Shyam Selvadurai's Cinnamon Gardens; Tobias A Wachinger: The Pitfalls of Cultural Fusion: The Infertility of Hybridity; Tabish Khair: The Knowledge of Loss, the Loss of Knowledge: Jhumpa Lahiri, Shashi Deshpande, Mahasweta Devi.
