Jayne Wilkins received her master's degree in Archaeology at the University of Calgary in 2008 and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include lithic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, the African Stone Age, and modern human origins. She has participated in the excavation and analysis of archaeological sites in South Africa, Mozambique, and Alberta, Canada. Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Kirsten Anderson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Canadian Plains and the use of three-dimensional spatial analysis for the identification of hearth-related activities.

• Preface; Postcolonial Women Writers & Their Cultural Productions; Dominant Epistemologies & Alternative Readings: Gender & Globalisation; The Indian Diasopra & Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's Texts; Postcoloniality & Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen's Film Parama; Educational Debates & the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bd's So Long a Letter; The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane; Maddening Inscriptions & Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Globalism & Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam & Farida Karodia; Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn & Deepa Mehta's Fire; Transnationalism & the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali & Samina Ali; Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminist Critical Practices; Index.

Jayne Wilkins received her master's degree in Archaeology at the University of Calgary in 2008 and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include lithic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, the African Stone Age, and modern human origins. She has participated in the excavation and analysis of archaeological sites in South Africa, Mozambique, and Alberta, Canada. Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Kirsten Anderson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Canadian Plains and the use of three-dimensional spatial analysis for the identification of hearth-related activities.

• Preface; Postcolonial Women Writers & Their Cultural Productions; Dominant Epistemologies & Alternative Readings: Gender & Globalisation; The Indian Diasopra & Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's Texts; Postcoloniality & Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen's Film Parama; Educational Debates & the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bd's So Long a Letter; The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane; Maddening Inscriptions & Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Globalism & Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam & Farida Karodia; Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn & Deepa Mehta's Fire; Transnationalism & the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali & Samina Ali; Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminist Critical Practices; Index.

Jayne Wilkins received her master's degree in Archaeology at the University of Calgary in 2008 and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include lithic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, the African Stone Age, and modern human origins. She has participated in the excavation and analysis of archaeological sites in South Africa, Mozambique, and Alberta, Canada. Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Kirsten Anderson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Canadian Plains and the use of three-dimensional spatial analysis for the identification of hearth-related activities.

• Preface; Postcolonial Women Writers & Their Cultural Productions; Dominant Epistemologies & Alternative Readings: Gender & Globalisation; The Indian Diasopra & Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's Texts; Postcoloniality & Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen's Film Parama; Educational Debates & the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bd's So Long a Letter; The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane; Maddening Inscriptions & Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Globalism & Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam & Farida Karodia; Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn & Deepa Mehta's Fire; Transnationalism & the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali & Samina Ali; Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminist Critical Practices; Index.