A passage to globalism globalization, identities and South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2013.
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| Series: | South Asian literature, arts, and culture studies,
v. 4 |
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Table of Contents:
- Remapping the borders of identity: Globalization and the negotiation of national identities in Hanif Kureishi's My beautiful laundrette, Salman Rushdie's The ground beneath her feet and Ravinder Randhawa's The coral strand
- Imagining a world of inequality: class identities in V.S. Naipaul's Magic seeds, Manzu Islam's Burrow and Hari Kunzru's Transmission
- The new ummah: negotiating Muslim identities in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses, Hanif Kureishi's The black album, and Monica Ali's Brick lane
- Gendering the world: globalization and gender identities in Farhana Sheikh's The red box, Meera Syal's Life isn't all ha ha hee and Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers
- Conclusion: Conflicted identities and new directions.