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PERIPHERAL CENTRES, CENTRAL PERIPHERIES India and Its Diaspora(S) Edited by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (With Vera Alexander) PERIPHERAL CENTRES, CENTRAL PERIPHERIES India and its Diaspora(s) edited by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (with Vera Alexander) LIT TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (with Vera Alexander) (Saarland University, Germany) A Preface to Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries 1 I. CORE CONCEPTUALISATIONS Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (Saarland University, Germany) Revisiting Centres and Peripheries: Anglophone India and its Diaspora(s) 13 Meenakshi Mukherjee (Central University of Hyderabad, India) Whose Centre, Which Periphery? 37 Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota, USA) The Southern Intellectual 47 Dietmar Rothermund (Heidelberg University, Germany) The Evolution of the Centre-Periphery Concept 75 Dietmar Rothermund (Heidelberg University, Germany) Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa: A Voice front the Periphery 81 II. RECONTEXTUALIZING CENTRALITY Harish Trivedi (Delhi University, India) Postcolonial Centre, Postmodernist Periphery: Reversing a Discursive Hierarchy 91 Makarand Paranjape (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) Indian Anglophony, Diasporan Polycentricism, and Postcolonial Futures 101 Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (UMass Amherst/University of California Irvine, USA) Diaspora, Hybridity, Pedagogy 113 Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University, Australia) Traumatic Memory, Mourning and V.S. Naipaul 129 Konrad Meisig (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) Modern Narrative Techniques in the Paficatantra: An Indian Contribution to World Literature 157 III. PARAMETERS OF THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL Tabish Khair (University of Arhus, Denmark) Travel and Immigration: A Working Paper on Aspects of the Politics of the (PostJColonial 173 Sujala Singh (University of Southampton, UK) The Child and the Nation in Contemporary South Asian Literature 183 Michael Walling (Border Crossings Theatre Company, London, UK) Inter-Cultural Tempests - India, Mauritius and London 195 Silvia Albertazzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Salman Rushdie in New York: Looking at the Centre with Furious Eyes 205 Keya Ganguly (University of Minnesota, USA) A Signature of the Visible: Satyajit Ray and Cinematic Modernism 213 Rachel Dwyer (SOAS, University of London, UK) Real and Imagined Audiences: Lagaan and the Hindi Film after the 1990s 223 IV. PERIPHERAL POLYPHONY Chandrashekhar Bhat (Central University of Hyderabad, India) Continuity and Change in the Perception of 'Indianness': Issues of Identity among Indians at Home and in the Diaspora 243 Udaya Narayana Singh (Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India) Another India: Voices from the Periphery 251 Vilashini Cooppan (Yale University/University of California Santa Cruz, USA) National Longing, Diasporic Form: Indian Subjects in the 'New'South Africa 263 Mini Krishnan (Editor, Translations, Oxford UP India) A Note on Travels of a Third Literature: Indian Translations Move from the Periphery to the Centre 281 285 CONTRIBUTORS INDEX 291.
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