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Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku
- Title
- Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat.
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bhat, Shilpa Daithota
- Description
- xxix, 171 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- South Asian literature
- South Asia
- Home in literature
- South Asia > In literature
- Women in literature
- South Asian literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- South Asian literature > History and criticism
- Literature
- South Asian diaspora in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- South Asian literature (English) > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Realizing Trishanku. Representation and memorialization of the experiences of Indian labour migrants / Marina Carter; Uprooted and dispossessed: an ecocritical feminist reading of Farida Karodia's other secrets / María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira -- Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Maria Alonso Alonso -- Configuring home. "There's no place like home": travel as erasure in three, turn-of-the-century narratives / Gurbir Singh Jolly; A passage from India: the darkly funny in Meera Syal's Anita and me / Setara Pracha ; Relocating home and diasporising the South Asian queer / Shuhita Bhattacharjee ; Negotiating home and homeland through women's life-writing / Sam Naidu -- Exploring hostlands. Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the romance of the refugee governess / Reshmi J. Hebbar; Exploring race in the poetry of Vandana Khanna / Pireeni Sundaralingam and Dilruba Ahmed / Mitali P. Wong; Corporeality and search for home in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / -- Izabella Kimak -- Epilogue : Abbey and me / Vanita Seth.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6961
- ISBN
- 9781498577625
- 1498577628
- LCCN
- 2018002483
- OCLC
- 1028583334
- Title
- Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku / edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bhat, Shilpa Daithota, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Diaspora poetics and homing in South Asian women's writing. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498577632 (DLC) 2018012161
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6961