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Indian writers : transnationalisms and diasporas / Jaspal K. Singh & Rajendra Chetty, editors.
Van Pelt Library PR9485.45 .I52 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 5.
- Postcolonial studies, 1942-6100 ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic literature (English)--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
- Indic literature (English).
- East Indians--Foreign countries--Intellectual life.
- East Indians.
- East Indian diaspora in literature.
- Transnationalism in literature.
- East Indians--Foreign countries.
- Intellectual life.
- Foreign countries.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly & 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 Singh
- Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu
- The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bartolini
- Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty
- Reading ' South Asia' in dangerous times (and other lessons from the future) / Christopher Larkosh
- The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley
- Of exile and return : exploring Fiji-Indian literary metaphors / Seri Inthava Luangphinith
- Comparative diasporas. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781433106316
- 1433106310
- OCLC:
- 320696609
- Publisher Number:
- 99936668699
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