Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: departure for a detour
  • The poetics of cultural transrelation: a diversion of identity
  • The politics of re-homing: negotiation of cultural dwellings
  • The problematics of translocal place: cultural passage beyond the border politics
  • Alter/native stories of memory and amnesia: a mnemonic inquiry
  • Against the grain of cultural exoticism: the other question
  • Styling diasporic carnival: performance of difference
  • Conclusion: journey without maps.