Bridges, borders and bodies
Subtitle: transgressive transculturality in contemporary South Asian diasporic women's novels
By: by Christine F. Vogt-William
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781443860451
Subjects: South Asian literature (English); Women authors; History and criticism; South Asian diaspora in literature; English fiction; South Asian authors; South Asians in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Women in literature; Feminism in literature; Sex role in literature
Description: South Asian diasporas can be considered transcultural legacies of colonialism, while constituting transcultural forms of postcolonial reality in today's globalised world. The main focus of investigation here is South Asian women's fiction, where diverse forms of identity negotiation undertaken by the protagonists in a number of contemporary novels (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) are read as transgressions. The themes of early gendered experiences of South Asian indentured labour migratio...