Narrative Performances Of Mothering In South Asian Diasporic Fiction

Author : Sarah Knor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000824704

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Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction by Sarah Knor Pdf

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.

Author : Parichay Patra,Amitendu Bhattacharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000928617

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Frontiers of South Asian Culture by Parichay Patra,Amitendu Bhattacharya Pdf

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.

Author : Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003816270

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Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing by Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez Pdf

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.

Author : Elena Igartuburu García
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003838227

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Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean by Elena Igartuburu García Pdf

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.

Author : Aroosa Kanwal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835684

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Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities by Aroosa Kanwal Pdf

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.

Author : Christine Vogt-William
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443868433

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Bridges, Borders and Bodies by Christine Vogt-William Pdf

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 : Somjeeta Pandey,Bidhu Chand Murmu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527515307

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South Asian Women’s Narratives by Somjeeta Pandey,Bidhu Chand Murmu Pdf

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.

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137403047

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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction by Ruvani Ranasinha Pdf

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 : Nurjehan Aziz
Publisher : Tsar Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4097746

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

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

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668436288

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Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women by Pourya Asl, Moussa Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2020325439

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Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Lawson Welsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783486625

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Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by Sarah Lawson Welsh Pdf

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.

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403932686

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Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain by Susheila Nasta Pdf

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.

Author : Anita Mannur
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781439900796

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Culinary Fictions by Anita Mannur Pdf

An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582439594

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How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet Pdf

A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out–of–the–closet father After his mother's suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon he's living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad–esque journey up a river into the remote jungle. Millet's devastating wit, psychological acuity, and remarkable empathy for flawed humankind contend with her vision of a world slowly murdering itself.