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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795428303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-4985-7763-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9954
• Soggetti: South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism; South Asian literature - History and criticism; Home in literature; South Asia In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.