03165nam 2200637Ia 450 991046565190332120200520144314.01-281-14905-597866111490551-4294-7029-10-19-152591-X(CKB)2560000000295969(EBL)415786(OCoLC)476244932(SSID)ssj0000248967(PQKBManifestationID)11194249(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248967(PQKBWorkID)10202630(PQKB)10135076(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034438(MiAaPQ)EBC415786(Au-PeEL)EBL415786(CaPaEBR)ebr10167529(CaONFJC)MIL114905(EXLCZ)99256000000029596920061018d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSouth Asian writers in twentieth-century Britain[electronic resource] culture in translation /Ruvani RanasinhaOxford Clarendonc20071 online resource (313 p.)Oxford English monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-920777-1 0-19-169568-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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;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 rangeOxford English monographs.English literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.English literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.989140410904Ranasinha Ruvani911443MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465651903321South Asian writers in twentieth-century Britain2041153UNINA