Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postcolonial Comparison
1. Excess and Tactility: Toward Interpretation as Vexed Contact
2. Transfixion and Subversion: The Unexpected Endings of J. Devi and Coetzee
3. Seduction and Substitution: Behr, Sidhwa, and the Child Narrator
4. Motion and Stillness: Surface as Depth in Dangor and Ondaatje
Conclusion: Postcolonial Relation
References
Notes
Index