- Additional Authors
- Mehta, Sandhya Rao
- Description
- x, 200 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : revisiting gendered spaces in the diaspora / Sandhya Rao Mehta -- Part I. Reading gender -- Gender and the Indian emergency : representation of women in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / Gemma Scott -- Communal violence and women at home and in the diaspora in Anita Rau Badami's Can you hear the nightbird call? / Sanchari Sur -- Purdah and zenana : re-visioning conventions / Tulika Bahuguna -- Part II. Writing gender -- Blurring borders/blurring bodies : diaspora and womanhood / Monbinder Kaur -- Diasporic mobility and identity in flux in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men and Monica Ali's Brick lane / Stephanie Stonehewer Southmayd -- Gendered diasporic identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's The namesake and Monica Ali's Brick lane / Elizabeth Jackson -- Kitchen politics and the search for an identity : The mango season / Shashikala Muthumal Assella -- Clothing, gender, and diaspora / Priyanka Sacheti -- Part III. Performing gender -- The masculinisation of the native gentleman : a close reading of Neel Haldar in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of poppies / Uma Jayaraman -- Sexual realisation in historical, social and cultural context : Abha Dawesar's Babyji / Harshi Syal Gill -- Something is happening : narrating queerness in the films of Karan Johar / Margaret Redlich.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2564
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 895730530
- Title
Exploring gender in the literature of the Indian diaspora / edited by Sandhya Rao Mehta.
- Publisher
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Mehta, Sandhya Rao, eidtor.
- Research Call Number
JFD 15-2564