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The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works,...

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Main Author: Maxey, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Englisch
Literatur
Südasiaten
English literature > South Asian authors.
American literature > South Asian American authors.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Asian > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Biography and True Stories.
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs sud-asiatiques > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine sud-asiatique > Histoire et critique.
English literature > South Asian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > South Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Grossbritannien
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Anthologies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: framing South Asian writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010
  • Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literature
  • Close encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writing
  • Brave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature
  • 'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writing
  • Conclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature.

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