Narrative performances of mothering in South Asian diasporic fiction. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah Knor.
• Authors: Knor, Sarah
• Contents: Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction: more than one mother 1.1 Gender and nation 1.2 Theories of the maternal 1.3 Theories of diaspora 1.4 Outline of chapters 2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling 2.1 Bharat Mata 2.1.1 Vande Mataram 2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor 2.1.3 Condensation and transaction 2.1.4 Metaphorical performances 2.2 Kipling’s imperial Mother India 2.2.1 Imperial doublings 2.2.2 The native-born diaspora 3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 3.1 Diasporic maternal practices 3.2 Victorian Mothers 3.3 The performance of mothering 3.4 ‘De-condensing’ Mother India 3.5 Diasporic bastards 4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days. 4.1 Sidhwa’s matricide 4.1.1 Allegorical readings 4.1.2 Hired Mother India 4.2 Suleri’s mother elegy 4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging 4.2.2 Mother(ing)land 4.2.3 Performances of abjection 5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 5.1 Performing the mother tongue 5.2 A wicked old mother 5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering 5.4 Diasporic seas 5.5 Ali’s coming-of-agency 6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics 6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours 6.2 Retrospects and prospects 7. Appendix 8. Works cited 9. Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9954; South Asian fiction (English) -- History and criticism; South Asian poetry (English) -- History and criticism; South Asian diaspora in literature; Motherhood in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000824704; 9781000824667
• Related ISBNs: 9781032420479; 9781032420486
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