<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Intense and sometimes contentious debates about South Asian identity<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394673&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1172_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Between the Lines</h1>
<H2>South Asians and Postcoloniality</H2>
<h3>edited by Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva</h3>
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</P><P>This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live "between the lines"—on and between borders—they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the interaction of the personal "I," the collective "we," and the world beyond.
<P>The South Asian scholars gathered together in this volume speak from a variety of theoretical perspectives; in the essays and interviews that cross the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines, they engage in intense, sometimes contentious, debate.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"an important and valuable study as it engages in a discourse which pushes beyond simplistic meanings and complacent acceptance of complex terms like 'postcolonial' and 'South Asian.'"</i>
<br>—<b><i><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_24/ai_63323873" target="new">MELUS</a></i></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>1. Introduction – Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva
<p><b>Part I: Interviews</b>
<br>2. Observing Ourselves among Others, Interview with Meena Alexander – Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva
<br>3. Pedagogical Alternatives: Issues in Postcolonial Studies, Interview with Gauri Viswanathan – Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva
<br>4. Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology, Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva
<p><b>Part II: Commentaries</b>
<br>5. African-Americans and the New Immigrants – Amritjit Singh
<br>6. Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity – M.G. Vassanji
<br>7. Mullahs, Sex, and Bureaucrats: Pakistan's Confrontations with the Modern World – Sohail Inayatullah
<br>8. Coming to Terms with the "Postcolonial" – Deepika Bahri
<p><b>Part III: Studies in the Media and Popular Culture</b>
<br>9. An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in <I>Sammy and Rosie Get Laid</I> – Ranita Chatterjee
<br>10. Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's <I>Mississippi Masala</I> – Binita Mehta
<br>11. From Ritual Drama to National Prime Time: <I>Mahabharata</I>, India's Televisual Obsession – Sanjoy Majumder
<br>12. Television, Politics, and the Epic Heroine: Case Study, Sita – Mahasveta Barua
<p><b>Part IV: Literary Criticism</b>
<br>13. Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy in Salman Rushdie's Fiction – Sukeshi Kamra
<br>14. Style Is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's <I>Meatless Days</I> – Samir Dayal
<br>15. Redefining the Postcolonial Female Self: Women in Anita Desai's <I>Clear Light of Day</I> – Pushpa Naidu Parekh
<br>16. "Luminous Brahmin Children Must Be Saved": Imperialist Ideologies, "Postcolonial" Histories in Bharati Mukherjee's <I>The Tiger's Daughter</I> – Indrani Mitra
<br>17. The Troubled Past: Literature of Severing the Viewer/Viewed Dialectic – Huma Ibrahim
<p><b>Part V: Experimental Critiques</b>
<br>18. Jane Austin in Meerut, India – Amitava Kumar
<br>19. Border Crossings: Retrieval and Erasure of the Self as Other – Shantanu DuttaAhmed
<br>20. I see the Glass as Half Full – Uma Parameswaran
<p>About the Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><B>Deepika Bahri</B> is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory at Emory University.</P>
<P><B>Mary Vasudeva</B> is on the Board of Directors for the Academic Excellence Foundation at Bowling Green State University.</P>
<P>Contributors: Meena Alexander, Gauri Viswanathan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Amritjit Singh, M. G. Vassanji, Sohail Inayatullah, Ranita Chatterjee, Benita Mehta, Sanjoy Majumder, Mahasveta Barua, Sukeshi Kamra, Samir Dayal, Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Indrani Mitra, Huma Ibrahim, Amitava Kumar, Shantanu DuttaAhmed, Uma Parameswaran.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/race.html" TARGET="_top">Race and Ethnicity</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/asian.html" TARGET="_top">Asian Studies</a>
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<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh V�, and Cathy Schlund-Vials.
</p><p>Founded by Sucheng Chan in 1991, the <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, series has sponsored innovative scholarship that has redefined, expanded, and advanced the field of Asian American studies while strengthening its links to related areas of scholarly inquiry and engaged critique. Like the field from which it emerged, the series remains rooted in the social sciences and humanities, encompassing multiple regions, formations, communities, and identities. Extending the vision of founding editor Sucheng Chan and emeriti editor Michael Omi and David Palumbo-Liu, series editors K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh V�, and Cathy Schlund-Vials continue to develop a foundational collection that embodies a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to Asian American studies.</p>
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