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The British colonial project has often been framed as a cultural clash followed by resistance from the colonised. This study challenges that view by examining hybridity as relevant to initial contact situations, shifting from an intercultural to a transcultural perspective on Anglicisation's effects. It argues that contemporary identity formation in the Anglophone world, rooted in colonialism, can be understood through the lens of "transitionality." The exploration of "transitional identity" is primarily found in the autobiographical narratives of those experiencing this state, making autobiography the central focus of the study. Traditional autobiography theory is deemed inadequate for understanding "transitionality," prompting an analysis of diverse, individualized autobiographies from various global regions using a new theoretical framework. This approach highlights the importance of "transitional autobiography" in re-evaluating postcolonial theory and redefining literary self-representation. Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, the initiator of Transcultural Anglophone Studies (TAS) and Professor of New English Literatures and Cultures at Saarland University, Germany, has authored several significant works, including studies on Anthony Burgess and edited volumes on women’s writing and Anglophone India.

Prominent scholars in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, theatre production, and translation challenge the centre-periphery dichotomy used as a paradigm for relations between colonizers and their erstwhile subjects in this collection of critical interventions. Focussing on India and its diaspora(s) in western industrialized nations and former British colonies, this volume engages with topics of centrality and/or peripherality, particularly in the context of Anglophone Indian writing; the Indian languages; Indian film as art and popular culture; cross-cultural Shakespeare; diasporic pedagogy; and transcultural identity.

" Generally held to be rigid, borders and categories are nonetheless expanded when those bounded by the demarcations of hegemony, challenge its strictures. Significant instances of this constructive transgression can be found in the women's writing with which this collection of essays by international critics engages. Whereas in travel writing by women (Sarah Hobson, Dervla Murphy, Jan Morris) `transgression' is seen to have settled into a familiar strategy, in autobiography (Ann Fanshawe. Margaret Cavendish, Christine Brooke-Rose), cultural analysis (Virginia Woolf, Marianna Torgovnick, Donna Haraway), and fiction (Michelle Cliff, Jeanette Winterson, Ellen Galford, Fiona Cooper), women have succeeded in creating an innovative space for themselves. "