Format:
1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten).
ISBN:
1-4539-0988-5
,
978-1-4539-0988-1
Series Statement:
South Asian literature, arts, and culture studies volume 4
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Remapping the borders of identity: Globalization and the negotiation of national identities in Hanif Kureishi's My beautiful laundrette, Salman Rushdie's The ground beneath her feet and Ravinder Randhawa's The coral strand -- Imagining a world of inequality: class identities in V.S. Naipaul's Magic seeds, Manzu Islam's Burrow and Hari Kunzru's Transmission -- The new ummah: negotiating Muslim identities in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses, Hanif Kureishi's The black album, and Monica Ali's Brick lane -- Gendering the world: globalization and gender identities in Farhana Sheikh's The red box, Meera Syal's Life isn't all ha ha hee and Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers -- Conclusion: Conflicted identities and new directions. - As the history of British colonialism recedes and a new phase of global integration intensifies, the critical tools of postcolonialism become less useful in reading South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain. A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. It examines the politics of representation that are involved in positioning and categorizing South Asian diasporic fiction within such a world and asks questions
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4331-2026-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 1-4331-2026-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Migrantenliteratur
;
Südasiatischer Einwanderer
;
Identität
;
Globalisierung
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