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British Asian fiction : twenty-first-century voices / / Sara Upstone



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Autore: Upstone Sara Visualizza persona
Titolo: British Asian fiction : twenty-first-century voices / / Sara Upstone Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina: 823.9209891411041
Soggetto topico: Oriental fiction (English)
Soggetto non controllato: British writers
South Asian descent
black British literature
diasporic literature
gender
migrant literature
national identity
post-9/11 Britain
postcolonial literature
religious identity
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul; 2 Hanif Kureishi; 3 Ravinder Randhawa; 4 Atima Srivastava; 5 Nadeem Aslam; 6 Meera Syal; 7 Hari Kunzru; 8 Monica Ali; 9 Suhayl Saadi; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the
Titolo autorizzato: British Asian fiction  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84779-723-7
1-78170-322-1
1-84779-353-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808310503321
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