Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Prologue 'That Time is Past'. Introduction: The Diasporic Imaginary 1. The Girmit Ideology 2. Indenture and Diaspora Poetics 3. Traumatic Memory, Mourning and V.S. Naipaul 4. Diaspora and the Multicultural State 5. The Law of the Hyphen and the Post-Colonial Condition 6. Diasporic Narratives of Salman Rushdie Epilogue The Subaltern Speaks. Works Cited

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Vijay Mishra

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"Powerful, poignant... the autobiographical stance, insisted on at the very start, is delicately laid out, clarifying, rather than hindering the critical project under way." --Meena Alexander, Wasafiri