South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 /
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic termsRuth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, re...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- |t INTRODUCTION: FRAMING SOUTH ASIAN WRITING IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, 1970-2010 -- |t CHAPTER 1 HOME AND NATION IN SOUTH ASIAN ATLANTIC LITERATURE -- |t CHAPTER 2 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH ANCESTRAL SPACE: TRAVEL AND RETURN IN TRANSATLANTIC SOUTH ASIAN WRITING -- |t CHAPTER 3 BRAVE NEW WORLDS? MISCEGENATION IN SOUTH ASIAN ATLANTIC LITERATURE -- |t CHAPTER 4 'MANGOES AND COCONUTS AND GRANDMOTHERS': FOOD IN TRANSATLANTIC SOUTH ASIAN WRITING -- |t CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF SOUTH ASIAN ATLANTIC LITERATURE -- |t BIBLIOGRAPHY -- |t INDEX |
| 520 | |a The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic termsRuth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. The book engages with established debates, while intervening in new ways in transatlantic studies, postcolonial literary studies and Asian American cultural studies.Key featuresOrganised around four key themes: home & nation, travel & return, racial mixing and food & eatingWriters studied range from Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem AslamEngages with critics including Susan Koshy, Sukhdev Sandhu, Rajini Srikanth and James ProcterSources include articles from mainstream British, American and Asian newspapers such as New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The HinduFilms studied include Mischief Night, Mississippi Masala, A Love Supreme and Praying with Anger. | ||
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