ISBN:
9781474423557
,
0748641882
,
9780748653843
,
9780748641888
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 256 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
Series Statement:
Literature
Series Statement:
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Maxey, Ruth South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970 - 2010
DDC:
820.900914
Keywords:
American literature South Asian American authors
;
History and criticism
;
English literature South Asian authors
;
History and criticism
;
Südasien
;
Englisch
;
Literaturbeziehungen
;
Großbritannien
;
USA
;
Geschichte 1970-2010
Abstract:
A major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing and cinema in specifically transatlantic terms Ruth Maxey provides 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, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. While engaging with established debates, Maxey also intervenes in new ways in transatlantic, postcolonial literary, and Asian American cultural studies. Key features * Looks at writers includin
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Framing South Asian Writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literatureClose encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writingBrave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writingConclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p.[217]-246) and index
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