India and the diasporic imagination = L'Inde et l'imagination diasporique / texts collected by Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak ; with poems by Khal Torabully.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christian, Rita.

Misrahi-Barak, Judith.

Khal, 1956-

Series:

Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série PoCoPages

Collection "Horizons anglophones"

PoCoPages

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

India--In literature.

India.

India--In motion pictures.

Postcolonialism--India.

Literature.

Motion pictures.

Indien.

Local Subjects:

Indien.

Physical Description:

521 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2011.

Language Note:

In English and French.

Contents:

Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully

Introduction. Many Indias, many diasporas / Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak

Setting the diasporic stage. India's awakening and the imagining of the 'East Indian Nation' in British Guiana / Clem Seecharan

'In the arcade of Hanuman House' : ghostly spectres in the diaspora / Vijay Mishra

Writing class with Mr. Khan : no luncheon at Longchamps for the Jumbie Bird / Laurel Steele

Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully

Loss, mourning, and trauma. Anamnesis, amnesia, and history in The Moor's Last Sigh / Savitri Ashok

Unveiling everyday traumas : migrations in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Sophie Croisy

Unseen cities : representations of the diasporic experienced in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers / Catherine Pesso-Miquel

Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra's novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru

Hyperfabula of gains and losses : immanent and transcendent narrative perspectives in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss / Kerstin W. Shands

Voice from future past / Khal Torabully

To go home, or not to go home. The (im- )possibility of backtracking in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall / Chun Fu

The going home syndrome in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sabine Lauret

The return of the natives : infernal paradise in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge / Pascal Zinck

Les Indiades / Khal Torabully

From diasporic dis-locations and re-locations to diaspora as thirdspace. An-other space : diasporic responses to partition in Bengal / Louise Harrington

Modes of Indian literature in the diaspora : Trinidad and Tobago / Selwyn R. Cudjoe

'Two Bo-rat can't live in the same hole' : revis(ion)ing Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge / Simone A. James Alexander

Diasporic women in Lakshmi Persaud's novels / Myriam Moise

Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully

The visual and the oral, the playful and the virtual. Is cricket a fictional sport? / Alexis Tadie

Variations on diasporic viewpoints in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2004) and Mira Nair's filmic adaptation of the novel (2007) / Florence Cabaret

Bhaji, Curry, and Masala : food and/as identity in four films of the Indian diaspora / Binita Mehta

Mississippi Masala : a case study in forced hybridity / Zeenat Saleh

When Bhangra meets hip-hop : articulating hybridity on American soil / Claude Chastagner

Desigirls@blogspot.com : gender, diaspora and cybertexts / Pia Mukherji

Diaspora & coolitude. Écriture ethnographique et imagination diasporique dans les romans de l'engagisme indien (La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique) / Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo

La colonie pénitentiaire : exotisme et altérité dans Soupir d'Ananda Devi / Mar Garcia

'Divali ne fut jamais plus beau de tant d'océans franchis' : coolitude et métissages dans la poésie de Khal Torabully / Véronique Bragard

Selected bibliography

Bio-bibliographical notices

Synopses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782842699277

2842699270

OCLC:

747819300