Indian writers
Subtitle: transnationalisms and diasporas
By: edited by Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty.
Contributors: Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-; Chetty, Rajendra.
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 5
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433106316
Subjects: Indic literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism; East Indians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life; East Indian diaspora in literature; Transnationalism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The writer's niche. A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh; title: Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De; title: Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel; title: The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh; title: Diasporas and women. "I want to be surprised when I hear your voice" : who speaks for Jasmine / Ryan Paul; title: Life-writing : the migrating selves of Meena Alexander / Sam Naidu; title: The advantage of estrangement in Mukherjee's Jasmine / Alison Graham-Bertolini; title: Theoretical responses. Mapping Durban in Aziz Hassim's The lotus people / Rajendra Chetty; title: Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future) / Chris Larkosh; title: The function of "good" and "evil" in The satanic verses : a query / Charles Wesley; title: Past the point of no return : Fiji Indian divinations on exile and  homeland / Seri I Luangphinith; title: Teaching diaspora literature in a non-secular setting / Moumin Quazi; title: Comparative diasporas. India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land / Saunak Samajdar; title: Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora / Sitara Thobani; title: Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing / Peter Simatei; title: Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside? / James Gifford.