Fractured tales and colonial traumas: disfigured stories in Kashmiri short fiction/Patrick Colm Hogan--No center and no margins: narrativizing return journeys in works by MG Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, and Rohinton Mistry/Martin Loschnigg--The legibility of things: objects and public histories in NS Madhavan's litanies of the Dutch battery/Udaya Kumar--Metanarrative signs in Ousmane Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu: banty mam yall/Gerald Prince--A contextual rhetorical analysis of audiences in EM Forster's preface to Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable/Sarah Copland--Ideological ambivalence: a reading of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children/Jan Alber--" We are the people of the Apokalis": narrative voice and the negotiation of power structures in Indra Sinha's Animal's people/Marion Gymnich--Questioning the ideology of reliability in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist: towards a critical, culturalist narratology/Greta Olson--The immigrant experience in Jhumpa Lahiri's" The third and final continent": postcolonial and rhetorical perspectives/James Phelan--Ideology, dissidence, subversion: a narratological perspective/Monika Fludernik--The apocalypse that will never be: decolonization, proleptic history, and satire in India, c. 1946-51/Baidik Bhattacharya--In the absence of post/Mieke Bal--The addressee function, or the uses of narratological laity: lessons of Khasak/Divya Dwivedi