India and the diasporic imagination
Subtitle: L'Inde et l'imagination diasporique
By: collected by Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak ; with poems by Khal Torabully
Publisher: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montpellier
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9782842699277
Subjects: In literature; In motion pictures; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully; title: Introduction. Many Indias, many diasporas / Rita Christian & Judith Misrahi-Barak; title: Setting the diasporic stage; title: India's awakening and the imagining of the 'East Indian Nation' in British Guiana / Clem Seecharan; title: 'In the arcade of Hanuman House' : ghostly spectres in the diaspora / Vijay Mishra; title: Writing class with Mr. Khan : no luncheon at Longchamps for the Jumbie Bird / Laurel Steele; title: Extrait d'Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully; title: Loss, mourning, and trauma; title: Anamnesis, amnesia, and history in The Moor's Last Sigh / Savitri Ashok; title: Unveiling everyday traumas : migrations in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Sophie Croisy; title: Unseen cities : representations of the diasporic experienced in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers / Catherine Pesso-Miquel; title: Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra's novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru; title: Hyperfabula of gains and losses : immanent and transcendent narrative perspectives in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss / Kerstin W. Shands; title: Voice from future past / Khal Torabully; title: To go home, or not to go home; title: The (im-)possibility of backtracking in M. G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall / Chun Fu; title: The going home syndrome in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sabine Lauret; title: The return of the natives : infernal paradise in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge / Pascal Zinck; title: Les Indiades / Khal Torabully; title: From diasporic dis-locations and re-locations to diaspora as thirdspace; title: An-other space : diasporic responses to partition in Bengal / Louise Harrington; title: Modes of Indian literature in the diaspora : Trinidad and Tobago / Selwyn R. Cudjoe; title: 'Two Bo-rat can't live in the same hole' : revis(ion)ing Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge / Simone A. James Alexander; title: Diasporic women in Lakshmi Persaud's novels / Myriam Moise; title: Ode à Pessoa / Khal Torabully; title: The visual and the oral, the playful and the virtual; title: Is cricket a fictional sport? / Alexis Tadie; title: Variations on diasporic viewpoints in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2004) and Mira Nair's filmic adaptation of the novel (2007) / Florence Cabaret; title: Bhaji, Curry, and Masala : food and/as identity in four films of the Indian diaspora / Binita Mehta; title: Mississippi Masala : a case study in forced hybridity / Zeenat Saleh; title: When Bhangra meets hip-hop : articulating hybridity on American soil / Claude Chastagner; title: Desigirls@blogspot.com : gender, diaspora and cybertexts / Pia Mukherji; title: Voice from future past / Khal Torabully; title: Diaspora & coolitude; title: Écriture ethnographique et imagination diasporique dans les romans de l'engagisme indien (La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique) / Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo; title: La colonie pénitentiaire : exotisme et altérité dans Soupir d'Ananda Devi / Mar Garcia; title: 'Divali ne fut jamais plus beau de tant d'océans franchis' : coolitude et métissages dans la poésie de Khal Torabully / Véronique Bragard; title: Voice from future past / Khal Torabully; title: Synopses; title: Bio-bibliographical notices; title: Selected bibliography.