Her mother's ashes 2 : more stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States / edited by Nurjehan Aziz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aziz, Nurjehan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--Women authors.

Short stories, American.

Short stories, American--South Asian American authors.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vii, 176 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : TSAR, [1998]

Summary:

These precisely crafted and sensitively told short stories -- about romance, marriage, racism, friendship among women, loneliness and spiritual quest -- explore the wonderfully complex and manifold world of South Asian women living in the United States and Canada. Sharing both a core cultural Indianness and an assimilated North American identity, these authors reflect in their writings a diversity of influences from various regional, linguistic and religious traditions. In these stories we see the North American reality through the perceptions of women who bear -- to varying degrees and not always exclusively -- the heritages of Punjab, Gujarat, Bengal, South India, Africa and the Caribbean; and Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity; while at the same time making their homes in the western multicultural democracies of the United States and Canada.

Contents:

The mango tree / Shree Ghatage

Penances / Chaya Bhuvaneswar

A ritual exchange / Ginu Kamani

Beloved / Ausma Zehanat Khan

The cat who cried / Shauna Singh Baldwin

How I came to be a Mexican Indian / Maya Khankhoje

Wake up / Shani Mootoo

Porous borders / Roshni Rustomji

Lekythos / Lakshmi Gill

Chariot / tanya Selvaratnam

The foreigners / Anita Rau Badami

The icicle / Uma Parameswaran

The spaces between stars / Geeta Kothari

Hair / Yasmin Ladha

Liquid seasons / Sunaina Maira

Friends / Farida Karodia

By Lake Mendota / Meena Alexander.

ISBN:

0920661637 :

OCLC:

40534263