Transnational Spaces of India and Australia

1. Introduction;Transnational Spaces and Global Cultural Exchange; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay and Paul Sharrad.- 2. Displaying the Transnational Imaginary: Calcutta International Exhibition (1883) and the Victorian Court; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay.- 3. The Transnational in 'Japanese' Civilian Internment Camps in Australia and India; Rowena Ward.- 4. Indian-Australian Political Candidates as Transnational Actors: Reflecting the Community or Fighting Othering?; Sukhmani Khorana.- 5. Ghazal as a Transnational Space; Ghazal as Endgame: Judith Wright's 'Shadow of Fire'; Anne Collett.- 6. Possibilities through 'Strategic Essentialism': Adani TNC, Protest and  Negotiation Discourses in Australia; Arindam Das.- 7. Google Earth and Google Babies: Nation, Transnation and the Australian Reproscape - Vera Mackie.- 8. Literature and Identity Appropriation through Costello: Coetzee's Dealings with theMigrant's Crisis; Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee.- 9 . Telugu Cinema and Australia - Nishi Pulugurtha.- 10. 'The attention of the curious': Robert Kyd and cultivating knowledge in eighteenth-century Bengal; Eileen Chanin.- 11. English as Efficiency: New Indentured Labour and the Capital of Australian Universities; Mridula Nath Chakraborty.- 12. Home away from home: the aged-care facility as transnational space; Paul Sharrad.- 13. White Commonwealth and Coloured Empire:  Unmasking the Shared Colonial History of Australia and India; Richard Nile.

Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is Secretary of the Indian Association for Studies of Australia, Eastern Branch and Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He has edited several collections of studies of Indian-Australia literary and historical links.

Dr Paul Sharrad is University Fellow at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on postcolonial literatures, with specialisations in writing from India, Australia and the Pacific.