Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhat, Shilpa Daithota, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism.

South Asian literature (English).

South Asian literature--History and criticism.

South Asian literature.

Home in literature.

South Asia--In literature.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space-defined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgia, and hyphenated identities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: REALIZING TRISHANKU

1 Representation and Memorialization of the Experiences of Women in Indenture

2 Uprooted and Dispossessed

3 Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge

4 "There's No Place Like Home"

2: CONFIGURING HOME

5 A Passage from India

6 Relocating Home and Diasporizing the South Asian Queer

7 Negotiating Home and Homeland through Women's Life-Writing

3: EXPLORING HOSTLANDS

8 Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the Romance of the Refugee Governess

9 Exploring Race in the Poetry of Vandana Khanna, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Dilruba Ahmed

10 Corporeality and Search for Home in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction

Epilogue

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-7763-6

OCLC:

1027166969