offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of «hybridity.» In addition, the collection addresses in at least two significant ways the question about «beyond postcolonialism» and the future of the discipline.

Nirmala Menon is Assistant Professor of Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. She received her doctorate at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include postcolonial literature and theory from India, especially in multilingual narratives. She has written and published in areas of translation studies and regional language literatures in India. Dr. Menon is a member of the Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) and is a reader and reviewer for publications such as Her current working projects include a monograph and a digital humanities database. She is an executive member of the Editorial and Internationalisation Committee of Open Library for Humanities (OLH). Marika Preziuso is Assistant Professor of World Literature at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Mass Art) in Boston. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Caribbean women writers at the University of London. Her areas of academic interest include contemporary literature by immigrant writers in the United States, Latin@ literature, postcolonial literature, and gender and cultural studies. Dr. Preziuso is particularly interested in interdisciplinary narratives of twentieth-century and contemporary migrants through literature and the visual arts. She currently leads the Committee for the Visual Arts of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA).

Contents: Alex Gil: The Migrant Text: Aimé Césaire’s Hemispheric Gambit and the Editorial Blind-Spot – Hanadi Al-Samman: Border Crossings: Cultural Collisions and Reconciliation in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s – Annedith Schneider: Politics and Belonging in the Music of Turkish-French Rapper C-it – Marika Preziuso: Postcolonial Textualities and Diasporic Imagination: Reading Julia Alvarez’s (1994) through Azar Nafisi’s (2003) – Søren Frank: Migration Literature and Place: Aleksandar Hemon’s – Malachi McIntosh: Lamming vs. Naipaul: Writing Migrants, Writing Islands in the British Literary Field – Eugenio Matibag: Long-Distance Nationalism: The Filipino Abroad – Nirmala Menon: The Hullabaloo about Hybridity in Kiran Desai’s – Putul Sathe: Liminality within Borders: A Study of Baby Kamble’s and Urmila Pawar’s – Satoko Kakihara: Family Desires: Kinship and Intimacy among Japanese Immigrants in America – Sumana Ray: Rethinking Hybridity: Liminality in the Cultural Productions by Black and Asian Women in Britain.