AustLit

'Jane Watson's Hindustan Contessa published in 2002, may be regarded as a fictionalized cultural travelogue that internalizes 'the license of a traveller', for the narrative is deeply subjective and problematic, resonant as it is with the cultural negotiator's confused responses to indigenous customs and lifestyles. The narrative represents the confiictual tensions and bi-cultural stress between two racially distinct individuals who bond emotionally vwthin the enclosed space of the domestic. So the marriage of the white Australian woman to Milan, an Asian/Indian/Bengali immigrant who is now an Australian citizen is a political experience, heralding transcultural and transnational identities.' (Introduction)