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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxey, Ruth, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

American literature.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2011

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major writers and by relating their work to different historical developments sexual politics the marketplace and issues of literary value.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

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

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

9781474423557

1474423558

9780748653843

0748653848

OCLC:

795707574

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access