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PART ONE. - DISPLACEMENT, CREOLIZATION, AND TARGETED AUDIENCE I. Global reader empowerment and author/ization 1 - Encoding and decoding : inherited knowledges and naturalized axiologies 2 - Authenticity and legitimation II. The decline and fall of empires : the politics of language 1 - Mythical and literary paradigms : a stereoscopic representation 2 - The 'emergence of the interstices' III. Literary carnival : collocating within culture-specific and cross-cultural frameworks 1 - Carnivalesque double-voicing 2 - The centripetal and the centrifugal PART TWO. - PURITY AND POLLUTION I. Myth and food, a window on cosmology 1 - Identity-constructing configurations 2 - Paradigms of transgression II. The poetics and politics of scatology, saturation, and reception 1 - The grotesque body of carnival 2 - From death to diarrhoea III. From carnivore to cannibal 1 - Conflating diners and dinners 2 - Staging paradigms of predation PART THREE. - REALISM, ROMANCE, AND SATIRE I. Transmogrification, transtextuality, and transculturalism 1 - The engine of allegory 2 - Clowning and genre 3 - In/validating tragedy 4 - Menippea II. Figure and memory 1 - In my beginning is my end. In succession, Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended 2 - The idyllic and the demonic III. Mimicry and mélange 1 - Refiguring, configuring and reconfiguring 2 - Parodia 3 - Art as phenomenon Refracting the meanings stories make and unmake Bibliography

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