Format:
VII, 186 S.
ISBN:
9781433106316
Series Statement:
Postcolonial studies 5
Content:
Introduction -- The writer's niche. A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De -- Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel -- The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Diasporas and women. "I want to be surprised when I hear your voice" : who speaks for Jasmine / Ryan Paul -- Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu -- The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bertolini -- Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty -- Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future) / Chris Larkosh -- The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley -- Past the point of no return : Fiji Indian divinations on exile and homeland / Seri I Luangphinith -- Teaching diaspora literature in a non-secular setting / Moumin Quazi -- Comparative diasporas. India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land / Saunak Samajdar -- Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora / Sitara Thobani -- Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing / Peter Simatei -- Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside? / James Gifford
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Introduction ; The writer's niche. A story of exile and dislocation
,
Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity
,
Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding
,
The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos
,
Diasporas and women. "I want to be surprised when I hear your voice" : who speaks for Jasmine
,
Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander
,
The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine
,
Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people
,
Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future)
,
The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query
,
Past the point of no return : Fiji Indian divinations on exile and homeland
,
Teaching diaspora literature in a non-secular setting
,
Comparative diasporas. India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land
,
Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora
,
Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing
,
Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside?
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Auswanderung
;
Inder
;
Ausland
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Identität
;
Inder
;
Ausland
;
Indien
;
Literatur
;
Englisch
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Indien
;
Literatur
;
Englisch
;
Diaspora
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Singh, Jaspal Kaur 1951-
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