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Autore |
Maxey Ruth |
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Titolo |
South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010 / / Ruth Maxey [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh University Press, 2011 |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4744-2355-8 |
0-7486-5384-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism |
American literature - South Asian American authors - History and criticism |
Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-246) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Framing South Asian Writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010 -- Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- Close encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Brave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- 'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Conclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major writers and by relating their work to different historical developments sexual politics the marketplace and issues of literary value. |
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