Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- I. THE EIGHTH CONTINENT -- 1. Alma AMBERT: The Eight Continent or Living on the Edge -- 2. Gillian BOURAS: Memories of Living in-Between -- 3. Myriam FRANK: A Rediscovery of the Dislocated Self Through Literary Translation -- 4. Béatrice LAURENT-PARDINI: The Dream of a Victorian Quattrocento : Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Answer to the Dilemma of his Anglo-Italian Identity -- II. THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT -- 5. Nilufer BHARUCHA: Real and Imagined Worlds: Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora -- 6. Mary CONDÉ: The Flight from Certainty in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night -- 7. Soo YOUNG CHON: Hybridity as a Mode of Postcolonial Existence in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses -- 8. Florence D'SOUZA: Becoming oneself in Amit Chaudhuri's Novels -- 9. Geetha GANAPATHY-DORÉ: Personal Dilemmas and the Politics of Identity in Jean Arasanayagam's All is Burning -- 10. Madelena GONZALEZ: "New Ways to be Beautiful", the Search to Escape Identity in The Moor's Last Sigh -- 11. Corinne LIOTARD: Otherness in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay -- III. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND -- 12. Ruth BROWN: New Zealand -- Exile and Identity in a Transnational Age -- 13. Vincent O'SULLIVAN: Katherine Mansfield: The Exile of the Mind -- 14. Xavier PONS: Wrong Side of the Mirror: Exile in David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlew Creek -- 15. Jennifer RUTHERFORD: The Colonising Victim -- Tim Winton's Irish Conceit -- 16. Francine TOLRON: Nineteenth-Century Labouring Class Emigrants to New Zealand : Colonists, Colonials, 'New Chums' -- 17. Russell WEST: "Multiple Exposures": Spatial Dilemma of PostModern Artistic Identity in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital -- IV. NORTH AMERICA -- 18. Marianne ACKERMAN: Demons and Martyrs -- 19. Sarah LE MENESTREL: Connecting Past to Present: Louisiana Cajuns and their Sense of Belonging to an Acadian Diaspora -- 20. Priscilla MORIN-OLLIER: Remembering Difference - Living in Two Languages -- V. AFRICA -- 21. Bernard CROS: The English Language in South Africa: Empowerment and Domination -- 22. Myrtle HOOPER: Homeless, the Motif of Eviction in Two Early South African Narratives -- About the Authors.

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