South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010 / Ruth Maxey.
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works,...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. The book engages with established debates, while intervening in new ways in transatlantic studies, postcolonial literary studies and Asian American cultural studies. Key features. Organised around four key themes: home & nation, travel & return, racial mixing and food & eating Writers studied range from Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam Engages with critics including Susan Koshy, Sukhdev Sandhu, Rajini Srikanth and James Procter Sources include articles from mainstream British, American and Asian newspapers such as New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Hindu Films studied include Mischief Night, Mississippi Masala, A Love Supreme and Praying with Anger |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748653843 0748653848 9781474423557 1474423558 9780748641888 |