Indian Diaspora Literature A Critical Evaluation

Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Malik and Sons Publishers & Distributors
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789392459504

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Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation by Dipak Giri Pdf

In this period of globalization, many individuals are trying to upgrade the life and for that most of them are now migrating to other lands. In the process of getting settle in new land they encounter many problems. The issue of migration and immigration brings forward the question of exile, identity, assimilation, memory, nostalgia, hopelessness, uprootedness, hybridity and so on. Indian writers have beautifully picked up experiences of such people and penned them down. Such writing is called ‘Diaspora Literature’, wherein immigrant experiences have been shared through literature. This type of literature includes expatriate stories, refugee chronicles and immigrant narratives. The present anthology Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation covers as many as twenty articles where the authors have discussed innumerable issues and challenges as confronted by Indian immigrants due to their distance and dislocation from their familiar homeland to the alien hostland, irrespective of what kind of exile they follow: forced or voluntary. Apart from bringing into surface the migratory problems, the anthology also sheds light on the complexities that arise out of such migration. Some of the notable Indian writers who have been given room in this book are V. S. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anita Desai and Kiran Desai to name a few. Authors have tried to give their best outputs to reach this anthology to its intended goal. Hopefully this book will be helpful to both students and scholars alike.

Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : AABS Publishing House, Kolkata, India
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789388963435

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Immigration and Estrangement in Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Study by Dipak Giri Pdf

About the Author Dipak Giri- M.A. (Double), B.Ed. - is a Ph. D. Research Scholar in Raiganj University, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur (W.B.). He is working as an Assistant Teacher in Katamari High School (H.S.), Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He is an Academic Counsellor in Netaji Subhas Open University, Cooch Behar College Study Centre, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He was formerly Part Time Lecturer in Cooch Behar College, Vivekananda College and Thakur Panchanan Mahila Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal and worked as a Guest Lecturer in Dewanhat College, West Bengal. Along with this book on Indian Diaspora Literature, he has also edited eight books on Indian English Drama, Indian English Novel, Postcolonial English Literature, New Woman in Indian Literature, Indian Women Novelists in English, Homosexuality in Contemporary Indian Literature, Transgender in Indian Context and Mahesh Dattani. He is a well-known academician and has published many scholarly research articles in books and journals of both national and international repute. His area of studies includes Post-Colonial Literature, Indian Writing in English, Dalit Literature, Feminism and Gender Studies. About the Book The anthology Immigration and Estrangement in Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Study attempts to study diasporic sensibilities in writings of Indian Diaspora writers. The book mainly focuses its study on the sense of displacement and dislocation rising due to immigration from homeland to hostland as found in writings of Indian Diaspora writers. Authors have tried to give their best outputs to reach this anthology to its intended goal. Hopefully this book will be helpful to both students and scholars alike.

Author : Jaspal Kaur Singh,Rajendra Chetty
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : East Indian diaspora in literature
ISBN : 1433106310

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Indian Writers by Jaspal Kaur Singh,Rajendra Chetty Pdf

Indian Writers attempt to locate diasporic voices in the interstitial spaces of countless ideologies. The anthology provides a critical examination of dislocated diasporic subjects - those who have adjusted to the dislocation well, those who have chosen the hybrid spaces for empowerment, those who are dragged forcefully to various territories, and yet those who gleefully inhabit trans-local spaces. A wide range of voices raise these critical questions: How do we read these voices? How are the voices received in various locations? Are these voices considered Indian? Do they represent Indianness, or some hybridized version of it? What is an authentic cultural identity? What, ultimately, is Indianness, or for that matter, any hard-won national or ethnic identity? Additionally, as more female writers are being read, both in the global south and in the north, the reception of these texts, particularly in an era of globalization, and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in the United States, raises questions on how the «other», the subaltern, is represented and read. Some writers use an assimilationist approach to the cultures of the West to such a degree that they find Indian culture monolithically oppressive, while others continue to romanticize Indianness, yet others eroticize and ethnicize the east for western consumption. The authors of the essays in this anthology examine contemporary debates in postcolonial and transnational literary criticism in an attempt to understand the often complex and hybrid narratives of the diasporic Indian subject.

Author : V. Vinod Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : East Indian diaspora in literature
ISBN : 9382532919

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Diasporic Sensibility by V. Vinod Kumar Pdf

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096916

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Vijay Mishra Pdf

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the particular locations of both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma, mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity, travel, translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term ‘imaginary’ to refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that defines itself, consciously or unconsciously, as a group in displacement. He examines the works of key writers, many now based across the globe in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, – V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, David Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi, among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Indian diasporas.

Author : Prabhākara Mācave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:453351712

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Four decades of Indian literature by Prabhākara Mācave Pdf

Author : K. Balachandran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : East Indian diaspora in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130591329

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Critical Essays on Diasporic Writings by K. Balachandran Pdf

Author : Sudesh Mishra
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748629336

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Diaspora Criticism by Sudesh Mishra Pdf

The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique. Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This book is the first to provide an accessible overview of the critical trends in Diaspora criticism and to critically evaluate the major Diaspora critics and their models, with the aim of adding to the debate on methodology.

Author : Adesh Pal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060794461

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Interpreting Indian Diasporic Experience by Adesh Pal Pdf

Contains Papers Read At A Seminar On Indian Diasporic Experience-Deal With Diasporic Sociological Experiences Like Religious Conversion, Racism, Dislocation Issues Of Identity Etc. Address Complex Issues Pertaining To Culture, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Race, Religion, Politics And Society.

Author : Chelva Kanaganayakam
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889207493

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Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction by Chelva Kanaganayakam Pdf

What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counterrealist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. This book is about the need to look at the tradition of Indian writing in English from the perspective of counterrealism. The departure from the conventions of mimetic writing not only challenges the limits of realism but also enables Indo-Anglian authors to access formative areas of colonial experience. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms.

Author : Adesh Pal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210588492

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Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora by Adesh Pal Pdf

Contains Papers That Debate And Formulate Theoretical Concepts About Indina Diaspora Like-Homeland, Acculturation, Religion, Caste, Ethnicity, Double Citizenship, Gender And Related Issues. Also Analyse The Successes And Failures Of Indian Diaspora In Various Countries-Figian Diaspra, Writings Fo Punjabi Diaspora, Asian Women. A Reference Tool For Those Interested In Theoretical Issues Related To Indian Diaspora.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020841477

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Reworlding by Emmanuel S. Nelson Pdf

Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing. In Reworlding, Nelson has commissioned fourteen critical essays by as many scholars to examine major areas of the diaspora--among them Britain, the United States, Canada, Trinidad, Fiji, Singapore, East and South Africa--and prominent literary figures, including Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Kamala Markandaya, Bharati Mukherjee, and Raja Rao. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the various literary traditions within the Indian diaspora share certain common resonances engendered by historical connections, spiritual affinities, and racial memories. Individually, they provide challenging insights into the particular experiences and writers. At the core of the diasporic writing is the haunting presence of India and the shared anguish of personal loss that generate the aesthetics of reworlding underlying and unifying this body of literature. This collection will be of value to scholars and students of Indian writing in English, postcolonial writing in general, and the literature of exile and immigration.

Author : Alan Lindsey McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015059969470

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Alan Lindsey McLeod Pdf

The Essays In This Volume Were Originally Presented At A Conference Held At The Institute For Common Wealth And American Studies And English Language In Mysore In 1998.

Author : M. Q. Khan,Bijay Kumar Das
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN : 8126907630

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Studies in Postcolonial Literature by M. Q. Khan,Bijay Kumar Das Pdf

Studies In Postcolonial Literature Contains Twenty-Three Papers And Two Interviews With Two Eminent Writers On Different Genres Poetry, Fiction, Short Fiction And Drama Of Postcolonial Literature. It Deals With Literatures In English Outside The Anglo-American Tradition. The Book Focuses On How Postcolonial Literature Assumes An Identity Of Its Own In Spite Of The Writers Drawn From Different Countries With Distinct National Identities. This Is A Very Useful Book For The Students As Well As The Teachers Who Intend To Do An Extensive Study Of Postcolonial Literature.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313279041

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Writers of the Indian Diaspora by Emmanuel S. Nelson Pdf

The fifty-eight writers included in this new sourcebook have roots in India--or, less frequently, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka--but represent diverse geographical areas of the Indian Diaspora: from the South Pacific to South America, from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Singapore to the cities and suburbs of London, New York, Johannesburg, and Toronto. Their lives, works, themes, and critical receptions are examined individually but with attention to two central assumptions: that people of the Indian diaspora share a diasporic consciousness generated by a complex network of historical connections, spiritual affinities, and unifying racial memories, and that this shared sensibility is manifested in the cultural productions of the Indian diasporic communities around the world. These concepts, developed by Professor Nelson in a previous study, Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora, are here applied to a larger canvas of writers, including major international figures such as V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie and talented emerging writers. The writers practice a variety of literary forms and represent a extraordinary diversity of ethnicities, languages, and religious traditions. The women among them contribute the perspective of gender along with the themes of ethnicity, migrancy, and post-coloniality shared with the male writers. Each entry begins with relevant biographical information on the writer, offers an interpretive summary of the major works, provides an overview of the critical reception accorded the corpus and individual productions, and concludes with detailed primary and secondary bibliographies. A brief appendix lists each writer with place of birth and places of domicile. The introduction to the volume, by Professor Nalini Natarajan, discusses several theoretical issues pertinent to Indian diasporic studies. Of value to all literary collections and scholars, this reference work will be of special interest for post-colonial and Commonwealth studies.