South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010 / Ruth Maxey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxey, Ruth.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--South Asian authors.

American literature--South Asian American authors.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]

Summary:

The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms

The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Framing South Asian Writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010

Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literature

Close encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writing

Brave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature

'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writing

Conclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-246) and index.

ISBN:

9780748641888

0748641882

OCLC:

751751648