LEADER 03438nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910786105303321 005 20230823223934.0 010 $a94-012-0898-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401208987 035 $a(CKB)2670000000343069 035 $a(EBL)1152983 035 $a(OCoLC)831118701 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000968964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12466726 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000968964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10986161 035 $a(PQKB)10489649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1152983 035 $a(OCoLC)828858880$z(OCoLC)820632300$z(OCoLC)951170500 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401208987 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1152983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10674304 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL655755 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000343069 100 $a20130328d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnreliable truths $etranscultural homeworlds in Indian women's fiction of the diaspora /$fSissy Helff 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aNew York :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 225 1 $aCross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v155 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-24475-8 311 0 $a90-420-3628-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Of social and imaginary homeworlds -- pt. 2. Homing in on unreliable storytelling. 330 $aWhile many people see ?home? as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ?home? is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women?s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v155. 606 $aIndic literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTruth in literature 606 $aReliability 615 0$aIndic literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTruth in literature. 615 0$aReliability. 676 $a820.9954 700 $aHelff$b Sissy$01109077 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786105303321 996 $aUnreliable truths$93727839 997 $aUNINA