Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [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 |
ISBN | 1-4985-7763-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795428303321 |
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018] | ||
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Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [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 |
ISBN | 1-4985-7763-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823448703321 |
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018] | ||
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Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures / / Inder Sidhu |
Autore | Sidhu Inder |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) |
Disciplina | 820.9954 |
Soggetto topico |
African literature (English) - History and criticism
Self (Philosophy) in literature South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism |
ISBN | 3-031-27605-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 -- Introduction -- 2 Negotiating Difference: Positioning the Self in Sake Dean Mahomet’s The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of the Honourable the East India Company (1794) and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789) -- 3 Importing Knowledge and Theory: The Authorial Self and the Expert Position in Henry Callaway’s Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulu (1868) and R. C. Temple’s Legends of the Punjab (1884-1900). - 4 The Divisible Self — Global-Local Journeys in G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948) and Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) -- 5 Talking Back — The Uncertain Self and Counter-Narratives in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006) -- 6 Conclusion -- 8 Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734839803321 |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
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Postcolonial urban outcasts : city margins in South Asian literature / / edited by Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-wazedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9/954 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Al-wazediUmme
ChakrabortyMadhurima |
Collana | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
Soggetto topico |
South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism
South Asian literature - History and criticism Cities and towns in literature Marginality, Social, in literature Outcasts in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-315-55964-1
1-317-19587-6 1-317-19588-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Urban outcasts, urban subalterns -- pt. 2. The national, the global, and the diaspora -- pt. 3. The space of the margins -- pt. 4. Forms of urban outcasting. |
Altri titoli varianti | City margins in South Asian literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798972603321 |
New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial urban outcasts : city margins in South Asian literature / / edited by Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-wazedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9/954 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Al-wazediUmme
ChakrabortyMadhurima |
Collana | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
Soggetto topico |
South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism
South Asian literature - History and criticism Cities and towns in literature Marginality, Social, in literature Outcasts in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-315-55964-1
1-317-19587-6 1-317-19588-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Urban outcasts, urban subalterns -- pt. 2. The national, the global, and the diaspora -- pt. 3. The space of the margins -- pt. 4. Forms of urban outcasting. |
Altri titoli varianti | City margins in South Asian literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823282503321 |
New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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