Title Home truths : fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain / Susheila Nasta

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002

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Description xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Prologue: Some Home Truths? -- Pt. 1. Passages to England -- 1. Points of Departure: Early Visions of 'Home' and 'Abroad' -- 2. Crossing Over and Shifting the Shapes: Sam Selvon's Londoners -- Pt. 2. Imaginary Homelands -- 3. If the 'House' Falls Down: The Enigma of Writing Survival in V. S. Naipaul -- 4. Writing Home: 'Unfinished Business' in Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses -- Pt. 3. Homes Without Walls -- 5. 'Homing In': Opening Up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder Randhawa -- 6. Birds of Passage: The 'Rooms of Memory' in Romesh Gunesekera, Sunetra Gupta, Aamer Hussein -- Epilogue: Some Notes Towards a Conclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index Subject English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism. South Asians -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life. Emigration and immigration in literature. South Asians in literature. Immigrants in literature. SUBJECT Asia, Southeastern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414 Genre/Form Fiction. LC no. 2001133053 ISBN 0333670051 033367006X paperback

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