TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.Introduction: Problematizing Indian Literary Canons

      Bonnie Zare and Nalini Iyer                                                                                      1

Canonizing Authors, Authorizing Canons

2.Embattled Canons: The Place of Diasporic Writing in                                                    27

      Indian English Literatures

      Nalini Iyer                                                                                                                                                                                            

3. Not Too Spicy: Exotic Mistresses of Cultural Translation

      in Chitra Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction

      Lavina Dhingra Shankar                                                                                           45                                                                                          

4. Code-Switching, Shape-Shifting, Asking Different Questions:

      South Asian Women’s Language In and Across Nations                                           73

      Josna Rege                                                                                                                     

5. One Bhasha Writer’s Side of the Coin

      Mahesh Elkunchwar                                                                                                93        

6. The Last Fifty Years: A Retrospective on the

      Calcutta Writers Workshop

      Pradip Sen                                                                                                              103                                                                                                                

7.A South Asian American Writer’s Perspective: Interview

      With Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

      Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Nina Swamidoss McConigley                         111      

Perspectives from the World of Publishing

8. India: The World of Publishing and Writing in 2007

      Urvashi Butalia                                                                                                       121                                                                                                           

9.Reaching New Audiences: A Conversation with Katha Press

      Geeta Dharmarajan et al with Bonnie Zare                                                             129                                           

10.Publishing Translations: An Interview with Mini Krishnan,

      Oxford University Press

      Mini Krishnan with Nalini Iyer                                                                                137      

Translation and Transcreation

11.Translations and Globalization: Tamil Dalit Literature

      and Bama’s Karukku

      Anushiya Sivanarayanan                                                                                          147                                                                                               

 12. The Tamil Krishna Devotional “Alaippayuthey” and World Literature

            S. Shankar; Interview of S. Shankar with Nalini Iyer                                         165    

13. Real Life Transfers: Reading Literature through Translation

      Christi A. Merrill                                                                                                       179

14 .Meeting Online: Publishing/Discussing Translation on the Web

      Arnab Chakladar                                                                                                       201    

15. Notes on Contributors                                                                                               213