Narrative Performances Of Mothering In South Asian Diasporic Fiction

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Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction

Author : Sarah Knor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000824705
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction written by Sarah Knor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.

Frontiers of South Asian Culture

Author : Parichay Patra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000928616
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of South Asian Culture written by Parichay Patra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes the boundaries of scholarship further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism. It opens itself up for many cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary, theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prisms of literature and cinema and traces the many modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation.

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing

Author : Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003816274
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing written by Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s (2000) investigation of "stranger fetishism" and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of "stranger". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, "strange(r)ness" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies.

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean

Author : Elena Igartuburu García
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003838227
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean by : Elena Igartuburu García

Download or read book Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean written by Elena Igartuburu García and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

Author : Aroosa Kanwal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835686
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities written by Aroosa Kanwal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure. Most importantly, the book emphasizes the continued relevance of creative literature’s potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination. The book makes a substantial theoretical contribution by drawing on wide-ranging angles and dimensions of contemporary drone warfare and its related catastrophes, postcolonial ethics in relation to the thanatopolitics of slow violence, dehumanization and the politics of death. Against the backdrop of such institutionalized and diverse acts of violence committed against Muslim communities, I call the postcolonial Muslim world ‘geographies of dehumanization’. The book investigates how ongoing legacies of contemporary forms of injustice and denial of subjecthood are represented, staged and challenged in a range of postcolonial anglophone Muslim texts, thereby questioning the idea of postcolonial ethics. One of the selling points of this book is the chapters on fictional representations by Muslim Myanmar and Uyghur writers as, to the best of my knowledge, no critical work or single authored book is available on Myanmar and Uyghur literature to date.

Bridges, Borders and Bodies

Author : Christine Vogt-William
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868434
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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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.

South Asian Women’s Narratives

Author : Somjeeta Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527515303
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book South Asian Women’s Narratives written by Somjeeta Pandey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection on women’s narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self’ of women. The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137403049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction written by Ruvani Ranasinha and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 0 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.

Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668436280
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women written by Pourya Asl, Moussa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.

Her Mother's Ashes, and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States

Author : Nurjehan Aziz
Publisher : Tsar Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Her Mother's Ashes, and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States written by Nurjehan Aziz and published by Tsar Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors: Vidyut Aklujkar, Meena Alexander, Himani Bannerji, Chitra Divakaruni, Ramabai Espinet, Lalita Gandbhir, Lakshmi Gill, Feroza Jussawalla, Surjeet Kalsey, Farida Karodia, Geeta Kothari, Yasmin Ladha, Arun Prabha Mukherjee, Hema Nair, Tahira Naqvi, Uma Parameswaran, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, Nazneen Sheikh, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Perviz Walji

Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

Author : Sarah Lawson Welsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783486627
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by : Sarah Lawson Welsh

Download or read book Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean written by Sarah Lawson Welsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ‘tradition’ and ‘authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean shows how the creation of food and the creation of narrative are intimately linked cultural practices which can tell us much about each other. Historically, Caribbean writers have explored, defined and re-affirmed their different cultural, ethnic, caste, class and gender identities by writing about what, when and how they eat. Images of feeding, feasting, fasting and other food rituals and practices, as articulated in a range of Caribbean writings, constitute a powerful force of social cohesion and cultural continuity. Moreover, food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403932689
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain written by Susheila Nasta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain seeks not only to place the individual works of now world famous writers such as VS Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif Kureishi within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War, but also locates their work, as well as many lesser known writers such as Attia Hosain, GV Desani, Aubrey Menen, Ravinder Randhawa and Romesh Gunesekera within a historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long established indigenous traditions as well as colonial and post-colonial visions of 'home' and 'abroad'. Close critical readings combine with a historical and theoretical overview in this first book to chart the crucial role played by writers of South Asian origin in the belated acceptance of a literary poetics of black and Asian writing in Britain today.

Culinary Fictions

Author : Anita Mannur
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439900795
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Culinary Fictions written by Anita Mannur and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora.

How the Dead Dream

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156035460
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis How the Dead Dream by : Lydia Millet

Download or read book How the Dead Dream written by Lydia Millet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest novel from critically acclaimed Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream is a beautiful, heart-wrenching tale and a riveting commentary on community in the modern suburban landscape and how the lives of animals are affected by it.

Margaret Atwood

Author : Fiona Tolan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204543
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Fiona Tolan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction takes a new look at the complex relationship between Margaret Atwood’s fiction and feminist politics. Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author who has frequently been termed feminist but has famously rejected the label on many occasions, this book traces the influences of feminism in Atwood’s work and simultaneously plots moments of dissent or debate. Fiona Tolan presents a clear and detailed study of the first eleven novels of one of Canada’s most prominent authors. Each chapter can be read as an individual textual analysis, whilst the chronological structure provides a fascinating insight into the shifting concerns of a popular and influential author over a period of nearly thirty-five years.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350123544
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwidge Danticat's prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing for children, the Haitian-American writer has throughout her oeuvre tackled important contemporary themes including racism, imperialism, anti-immigrant politics, and sexual violence. With chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars, this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st-century scholarship on Edwidge Danticat's work. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat covers such topics as: · The full range of Danticat's writing from her novels and short stories to essays, life writing and writing for children and young adults. · Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives including from establishing fields fields of literary studies, Caribbean Studies Political Science, Latin American Studies, feminist and gender studies, African Diaspora Studies, , and emerging fields such as Environmental Studies. · Danticat's literary sources and influences from Haitian authors such as Marie Chauvet, Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stéphen Alexis to African American authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Caribbean American writers Audre Lorde to Paule Marshall. · Known and unknown Historical moments in experiences of slavery and imperialism, the consequence of internal and external migration, and the formation of diasporic communities The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat's work and key works of secondary criticism, and an interview with the author, as well as and essays by Danticat herself.