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Preface v
Introduction 9
Overview 9
Beyond Binaries 12
Home and a Sense of Place 13
Migration and Displacement 15
Privilege 17
Homi Bhabha and Doubling 18
Artists of the Floating World 20
Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism: An Overview 22
The Floating World and Ukiyo 29
Borderlands, Contact Zones, In-Betweenness, Polyglossia, and Negative Capability 32
From James Joyce's Gabriel to Salman Rushdie's Gibreel 33
Narrative Tracks Across the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989) 37
Narratives of Self and Nation 37
A Pale View of Hills (1982) 40
Paradigm Shifts 42
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) 43
The Remains of the Day (1989) 47
The Use of Narrative Tracks and the Construction of Self 51
The Construction of George Orwell 52
Recent Works by Ishiguro 54
The Construction of Kazuo Ishiguro 57
Framing the Floating World: Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974) 61
Framing Reality 61
The Life of Bessie Head: From "No Frame of Reference" to "A Gesture of Belonging" 63
Susan Gardner and the "Truth" of Bessie Head's Life 66
Helene Cixous and "The Laugh of the Medusa" 67
A Question of Power (1973) 69
Breakdown and Dislocation 74
Recovery and Repair 75
Reframing the Floating World 76
Subalterns in the Floating World: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989) and The Holder Of The World (1993) 79
Can the Subaltern Speak? 79
The Question of Patriarchy 81
Fluidity and Assimilation 83
Two-Way Transformations 84
Jasmine (1989) 86
The Holder of the World (1993) 91
Leave It To Me (1997), Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004) 94
The Middleman and Other Stories (1988) 95
Arundhati Roy 98
Terrorism and Subaltern-speak 99
The Word Versus Words: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) 103
Salman Rushdie as Icon and Iconoclast 103
Subalterns, Frames, and Narrative Tracks in Midnight's Children (1980) 104
Shame (1983): The Rushdie Riddle 105
The Story of the Publication of The Satanic Verses (1988) 107
The Word Versus Words 108
Freedom of Expression and Adab 111
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990): An Allegory of Good and Evil 113
East, West (1994): Deconstructing the Sacred 114
Exuberant Secular Humanism: The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) 117
Stepping Across the Line: Fury (2001) 118
A Way Forward? 120
Conclusion 123
What Is the Role of the Artist in the Floating World? 123
Is Globalization a Viable Narrative for the Floating World? 125
Is English the Dominant Language of the Floating World? 126
Can Subaltern Voices Be Heard in the Floating World? 128
Is There a Dangerous Clash of Civilizations in The Floating World? 129
What Is The Responsibility of the Citizen in the Floating World? 131
Epilogue: Labor Day, 2005 132
Web Resources 136
Index 139
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