Dutt-Ballerstadt (postcolonial literature, creative writing, and gender studies; Linfield College, Oregon) presents a deliberate multi-genre discourse containing autobiographical, literary, and
theoretical narratives of displacement. Taking South Asians as a case study, she addresses issues of subjectivity and cultural articulation in intellectual migration, a movement she argues is
quite different from other forms of movement that produce, for example, exiles, nomads, and refugees. Her topics include predicaments for entering and leaving, Meena Alexander's memoir Fault
Lines, questions of belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri's narratives, remapping home, and the irresolution of locations in the question of returns. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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