Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction Nirmala Menon & Marika Preziuso vii; Part I. Creole Cosmopolitanism(s): Traveling Texts 1; Chapter 1. The Migrant Text: Aimé Césaire's Hemispheric Gambitand the Editorial Blind-Spot Alex Gil 3; Chapter 2. Border Crossings: Cultural Collisions and Reconciliation in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only in London Hanadi Al-Samman 19; Chapter 3. Politics and Belonging in the Music of Turkish-French Rapper C-it Annedith Schneider 35
Chapter 4. Postcolonial Textualities and Diasporic Imagination: Reading Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) through Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) Marika Preziuso 49Chapter 5. Migration Literature and Place: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project Søren Frank 61; Part II. Hybridity Refracted: Migrant Narratives 77; Chapter 6. Lamming vs. Naipaul: Writing Migrants, Writing Islands in the British Literary Field Malachi McIntosh 79; Chapter 7. Long-Distance Nationalism: The Filipino Ilustrados Abroad Eugenio Matibag 95
Chapter 8. The Hullabaloo about Hybridity in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss Nirmala Menon 107Chapter 9. Liminality within Borders: A Study of Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke and Urmila Pawar's The Weave of My Life Putul Sathe 125; Chapter 10. Family Desires: Kinship and Intimacy among Japanese Immigrants in America Satoko Kakihara 143; Chapter 11. Rethinking Hybridity: Liminality in the Cultural Productions by Black and Asian Women in Britain Sumana Ray 159; Index 175; Contributors 185