Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction : Gender, Narration and Globalisation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (286 pages)
Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Historical Background -- Scope of the Study -- Key Terms and Conceptual Categories -- South Asia, Diaspora, Globalisation and the Post-National -- Globalisation, the Postcolonial and Cosmopolitanism -- Postcolonial Feminism and Globalisation -- Texts, Contexts and New Directions -- Language, Translation and Readerships -- Transnational Literary Genealogies -- Subcontinental Contexts -- References -- Chapter 2: Globalisation, Labour, Narrative and Representation in Arundhati Roy, Monica Ali and Kiran Desai -- Arundhati Roy and Globalisation -- Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2003) -- Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006) -- Monica Ali's In the Kitchen (2009) -- Narrative, Realism and the Politics of Empathy in Postcolonial Fiction -- References -- Chapter 3: War, Violence and Memory: Gendered National Imaginaries in Tahmima Anam, Sorayya Khan and Contemporary Sri Lankan Women Writers -- Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age (2007) -- Motherhood and Small Histories -- Intermingled Histories -- Sorayya Khan's Noor (2003) -- Family, Nation and War -- Literary Strategies and Shared Memory -- The Common Violence of Gendered National Imaginaries -- References -- Chapter 4: Resistance and Religion: Gender, Islam and Agency in Kamila Shamsie, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali and Ameena Hussein -- Kamila Shamsie's Broken Verses (2005) -- References -- Chapter 5: Migration, Gender and Globalisation in Jhumpa Lahiri -- Framing Lahiri: Contexts of Consumption and Production -- Interpreter of Maladies (1999) -- The Namesake (2004): Losses and Gains of Immigration -- Unaccustomed Earth (2008) -- The Lowland (2013b): Redefining the Political, Contemporary Global Novel -- References -- Chapter 6: Women Writing Postcolonial Cities: Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam. Literary Representations of Modernity, Space, Time and Gender in Subcontinental Cities in the Global South -- Jhumpa Lahiri's Representation of Calcutta in The Lowland (2013) -- Karachi and Peshawar in Kamila Shamsie: Kartography (2002), Broken Verses (2005) and A God in Every Stone (2014) -- Tahmima Anam's Dhaka -- References -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.