Indian writers transnationalisms and diasporas /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-, Chetty, Rajendra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2010.
Series:Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The writer's niche. A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh
  • Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De
  • Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel
  • The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh
  • Diasporas and women. "I want to be surprised when I hear your voice" : who speaks for Jasmine / Ryan Paul
  • Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu
  • The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bertolini
  • Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty
  • Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future) / Chris Larkosh
  • The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley
  • Past the point of no return : Fiji Indian divinations on exile and homeland / Seri I Luangphinith
  • Teaching diaspora literature in a non-secular setting / Moumin Quazi
  • Comparative diasporas. India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land / Saunak Samajdar
  • Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora / Sitara Thobani
  • Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing / Peter Simatei
  • Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside? / James Gifford.