Reworlding

EMMANUEL S. NELSON is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, at Cortland. His special interests in Third World, postcolonial, and African-American and other ethnic American literatures are reflected in numerous articles published in such journals as Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Journal of American Culture, World Literature Today, Australian Studies, and Antipodes, as well as reference books and essay collections. Nelson is editor of Connections: Essays on Black Literature and AIDS: The Literary Response, and he is developing a bio-critical sourcebook on Indian diaspora writers for Greenwood Press.

• Introduction by Emmanuel S. NelsonThe Girmit Ideology Revisited: Fiji Indian Literature by Vijay MishraV. S. Naipaul: History as Cosmic Irony by P. S. ChauhanVoice in Exile: "Journey" in Raja Rao and V. S. Naipaul by K. ChellappanSouth Asia/North America: New Dwellings and the Past by Craig TappingPassages from India: Migrating to America in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee by C. L. Chua"The Sorrows of a Broken Time": Agha Shahid Ali and the Poetry of Loss and Recovery by Lawrence NeedhamStill Arriving: The Assimilationist Indo-Caribbean Experience of Marginality by Victor RamrajHistory and Community Involvement in Indo-Fijian and Indo-Trinidadian Writing by Helen TiffinStaying Close but Breaking Free: Indian Writers in Singapore by Kirpal SinghSam Selvon's Tiger: In Search of Self-Awareness by Harold BarrattIndian Writing in East and South Africa: Multiple Approaches to Colonialism and Apartheid by Arlene A. ElderKamala Markandaya and the Indian Immigrant Experience in Britain by Hena AhmadRushdie's Fiction: The World Beyond the Looking Glass by Vijay LakshmiAuthor(iz)ing Midnight's Children and Shame: Salman Rushdie's Constructions of Authority by Anuradha DingwaneySelected BibliographyIndex