The fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean : a critical study of English-language works since 1950 / Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Mitali P., 1954-

Contributor:

Hasan, Zia, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--South Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Caribbean fiction (English)--South Asian authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean fiction (English).

South Asians--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.

South Asians.

South Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

South Asian Americans.

South Asians in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Intellectual life.

Authors, South Asian.

American fiction--South Asian American authors.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

ix, 145 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, [2004]

Contents:

1 Riddles of Time and Change: Marginality and Immigrant Fiction 5

2 Identity and the Indo-Caribbean Experience: Themes, Genres, and Characters in the Fiction of V.S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon 16

3 Self-Definition and Difference: Ved Mehta and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 29

4 The Immigrants' Search for Identity: Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 49

5 New Voices: Bapsi Sidhwa, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Other Emerging Fiction Writers 73

6 Another World, Another Time: The Fiction of Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, and Other Contemporary Novelists 89

7 Narratives of Exile: South Asian Writers in Canada 103

8 The Revival of Adolescent Fiction: From Dhan Gopal Mukerji to Mitali Perkins and Indi Rana 118.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index.

ISBN:

0786419253

OCLC:

56104261