The diaspora writes home : subcontinental narratives /: subcontinental narratives. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jasbir Jain.
• Authors: Jain, Jasbir
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Multiple Locations -- 2. Writing Home: Memory, History and Imagined Spaces -- 3. The Burden of Culture: Between Filiation and Affiliation -- 4. Geographical Dislocations and the Poetics of Exile: Ashis Gupta and Michael Ondaatje -- 5. Memory and Reflection in the Writing of the Diaspora -- 6. Writing in One's Own Language and the Grounds of Being -- 7. The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of the Indian Diaspora -- 8. Out of the Colonial Cocoon? From The Mimic Men to India: A Million Mutinies Now -- 9. Routes of Passage: Identity, Home and Culture through Dislocations - Dabydeen, Bissoondath and the Naipaul Inheritance -- 10. A Bit of India: Under African Skies -- 11. In Search of Nationhood Across Borders -- 12. Mid-Air Tragedy: The Emperor Kanishka Crash -- 13. Call of the Homeland: The Civil War in Sri Lanka -- 14. Failed Hijrat? Cultural Mourning, Refugees and Muhajirs -- 15. The Diaspora Zeroes in on the Borders -- 16. The Children of Jahazi Bhai: Histories, Cultures and (Dis)Continuities -- 17. To India with Love: Rushdie, Ghosh and Mistry -- 18 Cultural Interpretations/Representations in Film of the Indian Diaspora: Nostalgia, Memory or Spoofing? -- 19. Overwriting Memory: The Diaspora and Its Present.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer Verlag, jointly published with Rawat Publications
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9; Indic literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism; East Indian diaspora in literature; South Asian diaspora in literature; English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; East Indian diaspora in literature; English literature -- South Asian authors; South Asian diaspora in literature; Cultural and Media Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Postcolonial/World Literature; Social Anthropology; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9811048460; 9789811048463
• Related ISBNs: 9789811048456
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