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100	1		_aRanasinha, Ruvani.
245	1	0	_aContemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction : _bGender, Narration and Globalisation.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan UK, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_a1 online resource (286 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
505	8		_aLiterary 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aFiction.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRanasinha, Ruvani _tContemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction _dLondon : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2016 _z9781137403049
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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