Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Introduction / C. Vijayasree -- Section 1: Re-imagining the Nation -- Nationalism and the Imagination / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Re-imagining Communities / Helen Tiffln -- Nationalism and Peculiarities of the Indian / Aijaz Ahmad -- Varieties of Nationalism: Culture and Resistance in the Indian English Novel / Satish C. Aikant -- Benedict Anderson Revisited / TimJ. Cribb -- British Orientalism and the Hindu Nation: Robert Southey's Palimpsest of Kehama, 1800-1810 / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- Nation, Literature and Institutional Change / Leslie Monkman -- A Roadmap to Civilianisation / Probal Dasgupta -- The Emperor's New Clothes / Bill Ashcroft -- Section 2: De-centring the Nation -- The Caledonian Diaspora in Australia: A Foot in Each Camp / Susan Cowan -- From Empire to Empire?: Writing the Transnational Anglo-Indian Self in Australia / Debjani Ganguly -- Gendering ImagiNations: Stories by Some Canadian 'Mothers of the Nation' / Wendy Robbins -- Ghost Spaces, Living Histories: Memory and Photography in Contemporary Native North American Women's Poetry / JenniferAndrews -- Woman and Nation in the Works of Contemporary Female Egyptian Writers / Stella Borg Barthet -- Fabricating Community: Local, National and Global in Three Indian Novels / Paul Sharrad -- Subversive Migrant Labour in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's White Teeth / Devon Campbell-Hall -- The Nation and the Indian Tribes: A Diachronic View / Ivy Imogene Hansdak.

Transcript of papers presented at the 13th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies held in August 2004 in Hyderabad India.