Title: At the crossroads of culture and literature /
Authors: Chattopadhyay, Suchorita,; Dattaray, Debashree,
Year: 2016
Subjects: South Asians North America Social life and customs.; Canadian literature South Asian authors History and criticism.; South Asian diaspora; Canadian literature South Asian authors.; South Asian diaspora; South Asians Social life and customs; Sud-Asiatiques.; Littérature canadienne Asie du Sud-Est Histoire et critique.; Sud-Asiatiques À l'étranger.; North America
Contents: ‘Neither here nor there’: fractured identities and hybrid Canadians / Swagate Bhattacharya -- Which Canada, whose Canada?: Situating ‘Canadian’ studies as area studies within the ‘Indian’ academic discourse / Dheeman Bhattacharyya – First peoples’ literature in Canada / Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm – Cricket, colonialism and racism: reading Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta / Sayantan Dasgupta – ‘Soft power’: marginalized aesthetics in Jeannette Armstrong’s fiction / Debashree Dattaray – Land, community and text: an examination of three Ojibwe women’s texts / Nilanjana Deb – Haunting legacies: the imbrications of Canadian and Indian history in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the Nightbird Call? / Srabani Maitra and Saikat Maitra – ‘A historical odyssey across continents’: an analysis of M.G. Vassanji’s writings / Soma Mukherjee – Aphrodite of ‘amor oscuro’: the ‘queer’ dialectic of strangerhood and familiarity in urban spaces in contemporary English novels from Indian and Canada / Anway Mukhopadhyay – Eurocentrism and the limits of symbolic recognition / Sonia Sikka.