Reworlding
Subtitle: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 30, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780313277948
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Indian Literature In English; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Literary Criticism; India; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Ethnic Studies - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; East Indians; East Indians in literature; Foreign countries; History and criticism; Indic literature (English); Intellectual life
First sentence: Any study of the literatures of the Indian diaspora must begin with the original moment of migration and the circumstances that made people leave the lower Gangetic Plains or the "Madras Presidency" in the first instance to help produce the preeminent stimulant, sugar, "an indispensable additive to sauces and pastry, as well as a sweetener for innumerable cups of tea," for the industrializing areas of the Western world (Wolf, 333).