South Asian writers in twentieth-century Britain [[electronic resource] ] : culture in translation / / Ruvani Ranasinha

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792227303321
• Autore: Ranasinha Ruvani
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-14905-5; 9786611149055; 1-4294-7029-1; 0-19-152591-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Oxford English monographs
• Disciplina: 820.989140410904
• Soggetti: English literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism; English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; South Asia In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Shifting Conditions: The Changing Markets for South Asian Writing in Britain during the Twentieth Century; 2. Self-translation as Self-promotion: I: Nirad C. Chaudhuri; 2. Self-translation as Self-promotion: II: M. J. Tambimuttu; 3. Assimilation and Resistance: Kamala Markandaya and A. Sivanandan; 4. Writing Back, Re-writing Britain: Farrukh Dhondy and Salman Rushdie; 5. Staging Cultural Difference: Cultural Translation and the Politics of Representation: Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book considers the work of South Asian writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain. Comparing the work of different generations, it shows how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly during the twentieth century. - ;South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first book to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930's to the present, based on original archival research drawn from a range