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Author : Shashikala Muthumal Assella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Contemporary South Asian American Women's Fiction written by Shashikala Muthumal Assella and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403055
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction written by Ruvani Ranasinha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.
Author : Deepika Bahri
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294910
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers written by Deepika Bahri and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary tradition. Whether writing in the homeland or in the diaspora, authors offer representations of social struggle and inequality while articulating possibilities for resistance. In this volume experienced instructors attend to the style and aesthetics of the texts as well as provide necessary background for students. Essays address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry. Presenting ideas for courses in Asian studies, women's studies, postcolonial literature, and world literature, this book asks broadly what it means to study anglophone South Asian women's writing in the United States, in Asia, and around the world.
Author : Neelanjana Banerjee
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752074
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Indivisible written by Neelanjana Banerjee and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America. Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet.
Author : Christine Vogt-William
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868434
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Bridges, Borders and Bodies written by Christine Vogt-William and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian diasporas can be considered transcultural legacies of colonialism, while constituting transcultural forms of postcolonial reality in today’s globalised world. The main focus of investigation here is South Asian women’s fiction, where diverse forms of identity negotiation undertaken by the protagonists in a number of contemporary novels (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) are read as transgressions. The themes of early gendered experiences of South Asian indentured labour migration, female genealogies and transmissions of cultural heritages down female lines, as well as negotiations of patriarchal violence, are read using a framework culled from postcolonial and feminist criticism. The literary representations of South Asian diasporic female experience in these texts are forms of commentary and critique by contemporary South Asian diasporic women writers. Hence these novels can be viewed as feminist strategies of textual creativity with distinct political aims of presenting transformative narratives addressing the tensions of diaspora and patriarchy. This book is intended to contribute to the current spectrum of academic work being done in diaspora studies, in that it brings together the concepts of diaspora, transculturality, contemporary women’s writing and transnational feminist critical approaches to bear on South Asian women’s diasporic literature. Contrary to the celebratory notion of the concept in much theory, transculturality, as represented in these texts, is fraught with ambivalence.
Author : Sylvia Watanabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Home to Stay written by Sylvia Watanabe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 32 pieces of fiction included here, Asian women and a few non-Asians strongly associated with the Asian American experience tell stories of lives in a new world. Some characters are newly arrived, others already second- and third-generation, but all must deal with being different. Altogether 29 authors, both established (Maxine Hong Kingston, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan) and new, are represented. A fine companion to The Forbidden Stitch ( LJ 5/1/89) and Making Waves ( LJ 6/15/89), also anthologies of Asian American women writers, Home To Stay has a few of the same authors yet no repeated stories, thus giving a wide range of writing. Recommended for libraries wanting a good Asian American collection.--- Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Coll., Garden City, N.Y. (quoted in Library Journal)"--Amazon.com viewed Nov. 3, 2022.
Author : Stella Bolaki
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120067X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Unsettling the Bildungsroman written by Stella Bolaki and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde.
Author : Adriana Elena Stoican
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883573
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction written by Adriana Elena Stoican and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers captivating insights into the interaction between the Indian and the American cultural worlds. A fascinating work of research, it illustrates an extraordinary capacity to employ the details of literary texts as significant clues in understanding the configuration of transcultural identities. The book constructs an exciting dialogue between complex theoretical notions and the vibrant fictional worlds populated by Indian, American and European characters. Its original and multi-layered approach illustrates how complex theories of culture can help the reader understand contemporary processes of migration, cultural change and gender identity that interfere with daily life.
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 039592720X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Interpreter of Maladies written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
Author : Izabella Kimak
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783653034585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Bicultural Bodies written by Izabella Kimak and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the representations of female sexuality and the body in South Asian American women's fiction. It analyzes several novels and over a dozen short stories to explore the mechanisms employed by women writers of South Asian descent to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.
Author : Bakirathi Mani
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012439
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Unseeing Empire written by Bakirathi Mani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and North America, Mani outlines the visual and affective relationships between South Asian diasporic artists, their photographic work, and their viewers. She notes that the desire for South Asian Americans to see visual representations of themselves is rooted in the use of photography as a form of colonial documentation and surveillance. She examines fine art photography by South Asian diasporic artists who employ aesthetic strategies such as duplication and alteration that run counter to viewers' demands for greater visibility. These works fail to deliver on viewers' desires to see themselves, producing instead feelings of alienation, estrangement, and loss. These feelings, Mani contends, allow viewers to question their own visibility as South Asian Americans in U.S. public culture and to reflect on their desires to be represented.
Author : Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283149
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Reckonings written by Hertha D. Sweet Wong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh emergent voices. These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure against all odds. Reckonings features short stories by: Paula Gunn Allen, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Beth E. Brant, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Reid Gómez, Janet Campbell Hale, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Misha Nogha, Beth H. Piatote, Patricia Riley, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Anna Lee Walters.
Author : Asian Women United of California
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780807059050
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Making Waves written by Asian Women United of California and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of autobiographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays, and photos by and about Asian American women.
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618576807
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Story-Wallah written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume." "In this book, some of the world's best fiction writers hawk their wares from different parts of the South Asian diaspora - Sri Lanka, India, the United States, Great Britain, Guyana, Malaysia, Trinidad, Fiji - creating a virtual map of the world with their tales. These stories explore universal themes of identity, culture, and home, and Story-Wallah includes a rich array of experiences: a honeymoon in Sri Lanka, the trials of a Bangladeshi refugee in England, life on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, the attempts of an Indian family to arrange a marriage for their rebellious daughter."--Book jacket.
Author : Rocio G Davis
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592133665
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Literary Gestures written by Rocio G Davis and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Form as function in Asian American literature.
Author : Nikki A. Toyama
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458735923
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book More Than Serving Tea written by Nikki A. Toyama and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American women are caught between worlds. Many grow up sensing that daughters are not as valuable as sons. But God has good news for us. In his eyes, we are his beloved daughters, created for greater purposes than the roles imposed upon us. In this one-of-a-kind book, editors Nikki Toyama and Tracey Gee and a team of Asian American women share how God has redeemed their stories and helped them move beyond cultural and gender constraints. With the help of biblical role models and modern-day mentors, these women have discovered how God works through their ethnic identity, freeing them to use their gifts and empowering them to serve and lead. God has so much more in store for you than cultural norms, gender roles and old stereotypes of geisha girls or dutiful daughters. Experience the joy and freedom of becoming the Asian American Christian woman God intended you to be.
Author : M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437085365
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction written by M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les arrels del realisme màgic en els escrits de Borges i altres autors d'Amèrica Llatina han estat àmpliament reconeguts i ben documentades produint una sèrie d'estudis crítics, molts dels quals figuren en la bibliografia d'aquest treball. Dins d'aquest marc, aquest llibre presenta als lectors una varietat d'escriptores de grups ètnics, conegudes i menys conegudes, i les col·loca en un context literari en el que es tracten tant a nivell individual com a escriptores així com a nivell col·lectiu com a part d'un moviment artístic més ampli. Aquest llibre és el resultat del treball realitzat a les universitats de Sheffield i la de València i representa una valuosa investigació i una important contribució als estudis literaris.
