Exploring in her study the disparate works of Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V. S. Naipaul—three writers whose works are nearly never presented or discussed in a contextualized and communitized context, Cristina Dascălu is able to fully, even wholly, explore the displacement and acculturative experience of exile, which thousands, if not millions, of fellow world citizens confront in our planetary community today. With considerable aplomb she, in the pages of Imaginary Homelands , explores and demonstrates the relevance of this experience and the full context of its implications.
This important work is sure to prove to be perhaps one of the most vital and energetic studies of its kind produced in the forepart of the 21st century and will without question contribute to numerous dissertations and be referenced in scholarly articles yet to be written. Her work, presented here, is sure to become a must-read for serious students as well as scholars of post-colonial literary and decolonialization theory for years to come.
Lyle W. Morgan II, PhD, FCollP
Professor of English
Director of English Education
Pittsburg State University