02643nam 2200481 450 991082344870332120220519113718.01-4985-7763-6(CKB)4340000000257779(MiAaPQ)EBC5309388(Au-PeEL)EBL5309388(CaPaEBR)ebr11518120(OCoLC)1027166969(EXLCZ)99434000000025777920220519d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing beyond Trishanku /edited by Shilpa Daithota BhatLanham :Lexington Books,[2018]©20181 online resource (203 pages)1-4985-7762-8 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.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.South Asian literature (English)History and criticismSouth Asian literatureHistory and criticismHome in literatureSouth AsiaIn literatureSouth Asian literature (English)History and criticism.South Asian literatureHistory and criticism.Home in literature.820.9954Bhat Shilpa DaithotaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823448703321Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing4064144UNINA