Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Angelika Bammer -- Dog Words / Abdelfattah Kilito -- 1. Interrupted Journeys: The Cultural Politics of Indian Reburial / Pemina Yellow Bird and Kathryn Milun -- 2. Faceless Tongues: Language and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / Julio Ramos -- 3. The Imam and the Indian / Amitav Ghosh -- 4. On Language Memoir / Alice Yaeger Kaplan -- 5. Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood / Marianne Hirsch -- 6. Mother Tongues and Other Strangers: Writing "Family" across Cultural Divides / Angelika Bammer -- 7. Double Articulation: A Place in the World / Doreen Massey -- 8. Where Have All the Natives Gone? / Rey Chow -- 9. Year of the Ram: Honolulu, Feb. 2, 1991 / James Clifford -- 10. Memories of Empire / Bill Schwarz -- 11. An Incomplete Replacing: The White South African Expatriate / Sheila Roberts -- 12. Ecriture judaique: Where Are the Jews in Western Discourse? / Susan E. Shapiro -- 13. A "Mischling" Attempts to Fight for His Rights / H. G. Adler.

14. Sheltering Battered Bodies in Language: Imprisonment Once More? / Karen Remmler -- 15. "Coming Home" on the Fourth of July: Constructing Immigrant Identities / Panivong Norindr -- 16. A Not-So-New Spelling of My Name: Notes toward (and against) a Politics of Equivocation / Elaine K. Chang -- Frontlines/Borderposts / Homi K. Bhabha -- Aller a la ligne / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.