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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing : Beyond Trishanku.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498577632
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's WritingDDC classification:
  • 809.89287
LOC classification:
  • PR9570.S64 D537 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: REALIZING TRISHANKU -- 1 Representation and Memorialization of the Experiences of Women in Indenture -- 2 Uprooted and Dispossessed -- 3 Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge -- 4 "There's No Place Like Home" -- 2: CONFIGURING HOME -- 5 A Passage from India -- 6 Relocating Home and Diasporizing the South Asian Queer -- 7 Negotiating Home and Homeland through Women's Life-Writing -- 3: EXPLORING HOSTLANDS -- 8 Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the Romance of the Refugee Governess -- 9 Exploring Race in the Poetry of Vandana Khanna, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Dilruba Ahmed -- 10 Corporeality and Search for Home in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction -- Epilogue -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: REALIZING TRISHANKU -- 1 Representation and Memorialization of the Experiences of Women in Indenture -- 2 Uprooted and Dispossessed -- 3 Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge -- 4 "There's No Place Like Home" -- 2: CONFIGURING HOME -- 5 A Passage from India -- 6 Relocating Home and Diasporizing the South Asian Queer -- 7 Negotiating Home and Homeland through Women's Life-Writing -- 3: EXPLORING HOSTLANDS -- 8 Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the Romance of the Refugee Governess -- 9 Exploring Race in the Poetry of Vandana Khanna, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Dilruba Ahmed -- 10 Corporeality and Search for Home in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction -- Epilogue -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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