Shifting continents / colliding cultures : : diaspora writing of the Indian subcontinent / / edited by Ralph J. Crane, Radhika Mohanram.
In the wake of the steady expansion and more recent explosion of Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian writing, and following the success of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children , the literature of the Indian diaspora has become the object of close attention. As a body of literature, it simultaneo...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Ralph J. CRANE & Radhika MOHANRAM: Constructing the Diasporic Body. Ralph J. CRANE: "Who . am . I?" Displacement and identity in Leena Dhingra's Amritvela . Chandani LOKUGÉ: "We must laugh at one another, or die". Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies and South-Asian migrant identities. Satendra NANDAN: Migration, Dispossession, Exile and the Diasporic Consciousness. The body politic of Fiji. Nilufer E. BHARUCHA: Imaging the Parsi Diaspora. Narratives on the wings of fire. Susheila NASTA: Homes Without Walls. South-Asian writing in Britain. Debjani GANGULY: Transgressing Sacred Visions. Taslima, Rushdie and the Indian subcontinent. C. VIJAYASREE: Alter-Nativity, Migration, Marginality and Narrative. The case of Indian women writers settled in the West. Zohreh T. SULLIVAN: Managing Migrancy. Narratives of exile and diaspora from Aimé Césaire to Bharati Mukherjee. Susan SPEARY: Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures. Spatial odysseys in diaspora writing. Radhika MOHANRAM: Postcoloniality and the Canon. Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World . R. RAJ RAO: "Because most people marry their own kind". A reading of Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy . Jane ROSCOE: From Bombay to Blackpool. The construction of Indian femininity in Bhaji on the Beach. Isabel SANTAOLALLA: Cinematic Journeys to Insular England. Horace Ové's Playing Away and Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach. Afterword. Makarand PARANJAPE: What About Those Who Stayed Back Home? Interrogating the privileging of diasporic writing. Works Cited. Notes on Contributors.