Diasporic inquiries into South Asian Women's narratives : alien domiciles /: alien domiciles. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat.
• Editors: Bhat, Shilpa Daithota
• Contents: Introduction, <span style="font-style:italic;">Shilpa Daithota Bhat ; ; Section 1: Domicile Tropes ; ; Chapter 1: ‘You are here, says the arrow’: The Body as Home in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi, <span style="font-style:italic;">Setara Pracha ; ; Chapter 2: India, Heat, Dust and Tea?: Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; ; and Nicole C. Vosseler, <span style="font-style:italic;">Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez ; ; Chapter 3: “[A] girl from the village: totally unspoilt”: Nazneen’s ‘Unhomeliness’ in Monica Ali’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Brick Lane, <span style="font-style:italic;">Sam Naidu ; ; Section 2: Shifting Domiciles ; ; <p style="tab-stops:left 28.35pt left 198.45pt;">Chapter 4: Ethnography of a Hyphen? The Gendering of Gen-X Diasporic Agency, <span style="font-style:italic;">Gurbir Singh Jolly ; ; Chapter 5: Migration and Sexuality in S. J. Sindu’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Maryse Jayasuriya ; ; Chapter 6: Reimagining Reluctance: The South-Asian Diaspora and Global ‘Homing’ in Mira Nair’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Shuhita Bhattacharjee ; ; Section 3: Domicile Significations ; ; Chapter 7: Negotiating the “Postcolonial Exotic” through Subversive Third-Person Narration ; ; in Jhumpa Lahiri’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Namesake, <span style="font-style:italic;">Lara Virginia Kattekola ; ; Chapter 8: Singing the Subaltern Woman: Film, feminism and Qawwali in the South Asian diaspora, <span style="font-style:italic;">Lauren Bettridge ; ; Chapter 9: Song, Narrative, Belonging: The Place of Song in the Oral Histories of Sri Lankan Tamil women in London, <span style="font-style:italic;">Jasmine Hornabrook ; ; Chapter 10: Domesticating the Alien: Culinary references and food rituals in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Song of the Sun God, <span style="font-style:italic;">Shashikala Assella
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 221 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/92870954; South Asian literature (English) -- History and criticism; South Asian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; South Asian diaspora in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Home in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Home in literature; South Asian diaspora in literature; South Asian literature (English); Electronic books; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498591775; 1498591779
• Related ISBNs: 9781498591768
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 08, 2020).
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