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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808310503321

Autore

Upstone Sara

Titolo

British Asian fiction : twenty-first-century voices / / Sara Upstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-84779-723-7

1-78170-322-1

1-84779-353-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

823.9209891411041

Soggetti

Oriental fiction (English)

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

Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul; 2 Hanif Kureishi; 3 Ravinder Randhawa; 4 Atima Srivastava; 5 Nadeem Aslam; 6 Meera Syal; 7 Hari Kunzru; 8 Monica Ali; 9 Suhayl Saadi; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the