British Asian fiction [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-first-century voices / / Sara Upstone
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| Autore: |
Upstone Sara
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| Titolo: |
British Asian fiction [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-first-century voices / / Sara Upstone
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.9209891411041 |
| Soggetto topico: | Oriental fiction (English) |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-322-1 |
| 1-84779-353-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465635603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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