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Title India and the diasporic imagination = L'Inde et l'imagination diasporique / texts collected by Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak ; with poems by Khal Torabully
Published Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (521 pages)
Series PoCoPages
Collection "Horizons anglophones"
Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série PoCoPages.
Collection "Horizons anglophones."
Contents Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully -- Introduction. Many Indias, many diasporas / Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak -- Setting the diasporic stage. India's awakening and the imagining of the 'East Indian Nation' in British Guiana / Clem Seecharan -- 'In the arcade of Hanuman House' : ghostly spectres in the diaspora / Vijay Mishra -- Writing class with Mr. Khan : no luncheon at Longchamps for the Jumbie Bird / Laurel Steele -- Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully -- Loss, mourning, and trauma. Anamnesis, amnesia, and history in The Moor's Last Sigh / Savitri Ashok -- Unveiling everyday traumas : migrations in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Sophie Croisy -- Unseen cities : representations of the diasporic experienced in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers / Catherine Pesso-Miquel -- Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra's novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru -- Hyperfabula of gains and losses : immanent and transcendent narrative perspectives in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss / Kerstin W. Shands -- Voice from future past / Khal Torabully -- To go home, or not to go home. The (im- )possibility of backtracking in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall / Chun Fu -- The going home syndrome in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sabine Lauret -- The return of the natives : infernal paradise in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge / Pascal Zinck -- Les Indiades / Khal Torabully -- From diasporic dis-locations and re-locations to diaspora as thirdspace. An-other space : diasporic responses to partition in Bengal / Louise Harrington -- Modes of Indian literature in the diaspora : Trinidad and Tobago / Selwyn R. Cudjoe -- 'Two Bo-rat can't live in the same hole' : revis(ion)ing Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge / Simone A. James Alexander -- Diasporic women in Lakshmi Persaud's novels / Myriam Moise -- Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully -- The visual and the oral, the playful and the virtual. Is cricket a fictional sport? / Alexis Tadie -- Variations on diasporic viewpoints in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2004) and Mira Nair's filmic adaptation of the novel (2007) / Florence Cabaret -- Bhaji, Curry, and Masala : food and/as identity in four films of the Indian diaspora / Binita Mehta -- Mississippi Masala : a case study in forced hybridity / Zeenat Saleh -- When Bhangra meets hip-hop : articulating hybridity on American soil / Claude Chastagner -- Desigirls@blogspot.com : gender, diaspora and cybertexts / Pia Mukherji -- Voice from future past / Khal Torabully -- Diaspora & coolitude. Écriture ethnographique et imagination diasporique dans les romans de l'engagisme indien (La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique) / Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo -- La colonie pénitentiaire : exotisme et altérité dans Soupir d'Ananda Devi / Mar Garcia -- 'Divali ne fut jamais plus beau de tant d'océans franchis' : coolitude et métissages dans la poésie de Khal Torabully / Véronique Bragard -- Voice from future past / Khal Torabully -- Selected bibliography -- Bio-bibliographical notices -- Synopses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English and French
Print version record
Subject Postcolonialism -- India
Literature
Motion pictures
Postcolonialism
Postkoloniale Literatur
Englisch
Film
Indienbild
Postkolonialism.
SUBJECT India -- In literature
India -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064958
Subject India
Indien
Indien -- i litteraturen.
Indien -- i filmen.
Form Electronic book
Author Christian, Rita
Misrahi-Barak, Judith
Khal, 1956-
ISBN 9782367811178
2367811172