R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of "Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location" (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). His articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and in collections such as "Nationalisms and Sexualities" (Ed. Parker, Russo, Sommer and Yaeger, Routledge, 1992), "The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse "(ed. Mohamed and Lloyd, OUP, 1991), "Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora" (ed. Chuh and Shimakawa, Duke University Press, 2001) and "Identities: Race, Clas...