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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , List of figures and tablesForeword , Preface by , Introduction: from empire to the "irresistible shift" , Fiction and transnational identity ; The transnational Indian novel in English : cultural parasites and postcolonial praxis , Capturing a nation : the elusiveness of cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner , Lost in transition, or a life in between : the move from empire to nation in Pascali's island , Nonfiction as identity forger ; Creating ethnic memory : Takuhi Tovmasyan's "Merry meals" , Foreign news : a flagship of the nation in an age of globalization , "Malaysia : truly Asia" : double consciousness in Malaysia's tourism advertising, or the double jeopardy of being Malaysian , Performing identity ; "Was guckst du?"/"whaddaya lookin' at?" : de/constructing Germanness in prime-time ethnic Turkish-German humor , Blackface minstrelsy and ethnic identity as globalized market commodities , Albert Isaac Bezzerides : translating ethnicity from fiction to film , National identities at leisure : the case of theme parks , Identity formation in the post-Soviet space ; Patterns of identity formation in the post-Soviet space : Odessa as a case study , The role of the Turkic component in current Kazakhstani identity formation , Globalization as fuel, ethnicity as engine : how markets reactivate local culture , The new eastern question : nationhood betwxxiveen faith and modernity ; "The nation and its fragments" : examining the Indian and the Egyptian nationalist models , Building a diaspora, adopting a new nationality : Egyptian copts in the United States , The politics of identity in Lebanon : the case of Hizballah , Positions ; American, United Statian, usamerican, or gringo? , Nation-state, national identity, and national culture in the era of globalization , Notes ; Works cited ; Contributors ; Index.