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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Overview | |
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Beyond Binaries | |
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Home and a Sense of Place | |
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Migration and Displacement | |
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Privilege | |
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Homi Bhabha and Doubling | |
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Artists of the Floating World | |
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Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism: An Overview | |
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The Floating World and Ukiyo | |
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Borderlands, Contact Zones, In-Betweenness, Polyglossia, and Negative Capability | |
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From James Joyce's Gabriel to Salman Rushdie's Gibreel | |
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Narrative Tracks Across the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989) | |
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Narratives of Self and Nation | |
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A Pale View of Hills (1982) | |
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Paradigm Shifts | |
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An Artist of the Floating World (1986) | |
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The Remains of the Day (1989) | |
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The Use of Narrative Tracks and the Construction of Self | |
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The Construction of George Orwell | |
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Recent Works by Ishiguro | |
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The Construction of Kazuo Ishiguro | |
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Framing the Floating World: Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974) | |
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Framing Reality | |
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The Life of Bessie Head: From "No Frame of Reference" to "A Gesture of Belonging" | |
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Susan Gardner and the "Truth" of Bessie Head's Life | |
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Helene Cixous and "The Laugh of the Medusa" | |
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A Question of Power (1973) | |
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Breakdown and Dislocation | |
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Recovery and Repair | |
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Reframing the Floating World | |
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Subalterns in the Floating World: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989) and The Holder Of The World (1993) | |
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Can the Subaltern Speak? | |
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The Question of Patriarchy | |
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Fluidity and Assimilation | |
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Two-Way Transformations | |
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Jasmine (1989) | |
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The Holder of the World (1993) | |
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Leave It To Me (1997), Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004) | |
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The Middleman and Other Stories (1988) | |
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Arundhati Roy | |
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Terrorism and Subaltern-speak | |
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The Word Versus Words: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) | |
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Salman Rushdie as Icon and Iconoclast | |
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Subalterns, Frames, and Narrative Tracks in Midnight's Children (1980) | |
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Shame (1983): The Rushdie Riddle | |
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The Story of the Publication of The Satanic Verses (1988) | |
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The Word Versus Words | |
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Freedom of Expression and Adab | |
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990): An Allegory of Good and Evil | |
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East, West (1994): Deconstructing the Sacred | |
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Exuberant Secular Humanism: The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) | |
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Stepping Across the Line: Fury (2001) | |
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A Way Forward? | |
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Conclusion | |
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What Is the Role of the Artist in the Floating World? | |
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Is Globalization a Viable Narrative for the Floating World? | |
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Is English the Dominant Language of the Floating World? | |
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Can Subaltern Voices Be Heard in the Floating World? | |
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Is There a Dangerous Clash of Civilizations in The Floating World? | |
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What Is The Responsibility of the Citizen in the Floating World? | |
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Epilogue: Labor Day, 2005 | |
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Web Resources | |
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Index | |