Chapter 1 Transporting the Subject: The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism; Chapter 2 World Borders, Political Borders in Naipaul's Among the Believers; Chapter 3 Transnationalism as Hybridization in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; Chapter 4 Citizenship in a Transnational Age: Culture and Politics in Ghosh's The Shadow Lines; Chapter 5 Places and the Politics of Identity in Desai's In Custody; Chapter 6 Conclusion;