South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010

Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major writers and by relating their work to different historical developments sexual politics t...

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Other Authors: Maxey, Ruth, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2012.
Series:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426076406719
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.