| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Realizing trishanku. Representation & memorialization of the experiences of Indian labour migrants / Marina Carter; Uprooted and dispossessed: an ecocritical feminist reading of Farida Karodia's other secrets / María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira -- Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Maria Alonso Alonso -- Configuring home. "There's no place like home": travel as erasure in three, turn-of-the-century narratives / Gurbir Singh Jolly; A passage from India: the darkly funny in Meera Syal's Anita and me / Setara Pracha ; Relocating home and diasporising the South Asian queer / Shuhita Bhattacharjee ; Negotiating home and homeland through women's life-writing / Sam Naidu -- Exploring hostlands. Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the romance of the refugee governess / Reshmi J. Hebbar; Exploring race in the poetry of Vandana Khanna / Pireeni Sundaralingam and Dilruba Ahmed / Mitali P. Wong; Corporeality and search for home in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / -- Izabella Kimak -- Epilogue, short story "Abbey and me" / Vanita Seth |
| Summary |
"This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space--defined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgia, and hyphenated identities" -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Home in literature.
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South Asian diaspora in literature.
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South Asian literature (English) -- History and criticism
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South Asian literature -- History and criticism
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South Asian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women in literature.
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Home in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Literature.
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South Asian diaspora in literature.
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South Asian literature (English)
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South Asian literature.
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Women in literature.
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South Asia -- In literature
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South Asia.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bhat, Shilpa Daithota, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018012161 |
| ISBN |
1498577636 |
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9781498577632 |
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