The Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora Writers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Bijender.

Series:

Routledge Literature Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora Writers is a seminal and comprehensive volume comprising an all-encompassing collection of thirty-eight critical essays that meticulously dissect pivotal diasporic texts written by pioneering Indian diaspora writers.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: The Palimpsest of Syncretic Identities in Indian Diaspora Literature

A General Introduction to the Handbook

Part 1 Memory, Trauma, and the Immigrant Experience

1 Magical Realism in Rashida Murphy's The Historian's Daughter Ancy Eapen

2 Unhomed at Homeland and Hostland: Diasporic Trauma in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife

3 Dual Identities in a Globalized World: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

4 The Reverberations of Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Anjana Appachana's Fear and Lovely

5 Resonances of Pain: Psychological Trauma and Resilience in Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us

6 Jemubhai Patel's Colonial Mania and Biju's Diasporic Dilemma in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

7 Reclaiming the Unclaimed: Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Uma Parameswaran's What Was Always Hers

8 Trauma of Domestic Violence and Queer Liminality in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

Part 2 Exile, Nostalgia, and Migration

9 Homeland, Exile, and Memory: Tracing Diasporic Identity in Meena Alexander's Fault Lines

10 The Diasporic within: Internal Exile and External Migration in Padma Viswanathan's The Toss of a Lemon

11 Double Migration, Alienation, and Powerlessness in M.G. Vassanji's No New Land

12 The Quixotic Dream and Endless Struggle: Exigency, Vicissitude, and Ambiguous Legacy in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas

13 The Shadow of Colonialism: Belonging and Cultural Dislocation in Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey

14 The Arabatized Man: Transience, Migration, and Precarity in Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary People.

15 Diasporic Consciousness and Korobi's Journey of Self‑Actualization in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Oleander Girl

16 Acculturation Stress and Generational Diasporic Differences in Tanuja Desai's Born Confused

Part 3 Gender, Marginalization, and Empowerment

17 Wandering Whispers of the Drifting Hearts in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust

18 Reading Gendered Experiences of Migration in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

19 Identity Constructs in Anita Desai's Bye‑Bye Blackbird

20 Roots and Routes: Mapping Diasporic Terrains in Meera Syal's Anita and Me

21 Ethical Dilemma, Surrogacy, and Selfhood: Navigating Gender, Class, Identity, and Personal Growth in A House for Happy Mothers

22 Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers: Memory, Trauma, and the Female Experience

23 Humour as Cultural Critique: Charting Diasporic Masculinity and Identity in Anurag Mathur's The Inscrutable Americans

24 Neither Here, Nor Whole: Queer In‑Betweenness and Diasporic Disillusionment in Neel Patel's If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

25 Cultural Displacement and Identity Crisis: A Feminist Study of Moni's Cross‑Cultural Marriage in Sunetra Gupta's Memories of Rain

Part 4 Power, Politics, and Postcolonialism

26 A Study of Agentic Materiality of Waste Explored through the Diasporic Discourse in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

27 Poisoned Lives, Resilient Spirits: Unveiling Environmental Injustice in Indra Sinha's Animal's People

28 Saleem Sinai and Magic Realism: A Study of the Conflation of History and National Trajectory in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children

29 Colonial Prejudice and the Demand for Reparation: Power Politics and the Postcolonial Discourse in Suketu Mehta's This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto.

30 From Homeland to Hostile Land: A Postcolonial Analysis of Kamala Markandaya's The Nowhere Man

31 Postcolonial Migration and Identity: Analysing Pran Nath's Fluid Identity Portrayed in Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist

Part 5 Cultural Hybridity, Relationships, Nature, and Social Strictures

32 Satire and Social Strictures: Marriage and Identity in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy

33 Navigating the Mystical and Cultural Landscapes in Easterine Kire's When the River Sleeps: A Study of Naga Identity and Spiritual Resilience

34 Generational Conflicts and the Collapse of Family in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others

35 The Dystopian Reality of Organ Trade in a Hyper‑Technological World in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest

36 The Recondite Secrets, Sinister Shadows in Warp and Weft of Twisted Truths Camouflaging Deception and Danger in Sujata Massey's The Widows of Malabar Hill

37 Beyond the Ramp: Religious Boundaries, Cultural Dogma, and Metamorphosis of Self in Kavita Daswani's Salaam Paris

38 Articulating the New Britishness: Rudeboys and Cultural Hybridity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Singh, Bijender The Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora Writers

ISBN:

9781040608012

9781003650171

OCLC:

1600523048

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392741