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Titolo: |
Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018] |
©2018 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
Disciplina: | 820.9954 |
Soggetto topico: | South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism |
South Asian literature - History and criticism | |
Home in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Asia In literature |
Persona (resp. second.): | BhatShilpa Daithota |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4985-7763-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823448703321 |
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