LEADER 03654oam 2200685I 450 001 9910807370703321 005 20240131152337.0 010 $a1-135-77747-0 010 $a1-283-96642-5 010 $a0-203-72456-9 010 $a1-135-77740-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203724569 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325180 035 $a(EBL)1111549 035 $a(OCoLC)826854949 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819470 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11410948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819470 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844878 035 $a(PQKB)10213625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1111549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1111549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10647873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL427892 035 $a(OCoLC)900416504 035 $a(OCoLC)825768016 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133476 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325180 100 $a20130331d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAway $ethe Indian writer as an expatriate /$fedited by Amitava Kumar 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 300 $aFirst published in 2004 by Routledge. 311 $a0-415-96897-6 311 $a0-415-96896-8 327 $aCover; Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Longing and Belonging; PROLOGUE; England; Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies; A to Z Street Atlas; Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.; PART I; Advertisements in Brighton 1822-38; My First Visit to England; Letters and Notes; In England and South Africa; Letters; The Sum Total of Good I Can Do; In the Modern World; Lions and Shadows in the Sherry Party in Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop; Red Indians in England; PART II; My America; Changes of Scenery; Speaking in Tongues 327 $aNaturalized Citizen No. 984-5165Some Indian Uses of History on a Rainy Day; The Ceremony of Farewell; Eating the Eggs of Love; Two Ways to Belong in America; Wild Women, Wild Men; The Cowpath to America; PART III; Oxford; Indoor Language; Gold Emporium; The First Letter Home; Vegetarian Summer; When on Route 80 in Ohio; Swimming Lessons; The Imam and I; Flight; EPILOGUE; There's No Place Like Home; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 330 $aFor more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present, Away contains work by the writers mentioned above, alongside earlier pieces by Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagor 606 $aIndic literature (English)$zForeign countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEast Indians$zForeign countries$xIntellectual life 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aExpatriation in literature 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEast Indians$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aExpatriation in literature. 676 $a823.009/954 701 $aKumar$b Amitava$f1963-$0887882 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807370703321 996 $aAway$94096678 997 $aUNINA