Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers

Author : Deepika Bahri,Filippo Menozzi
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294911

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Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers by Deepika Bahri,Filippo Menozzi Pdf

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 : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498577632

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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically, imperialism and the indentured/ ‘grimit’ system, triggered dispersal of labourers to the various colonies of the British. Of course, this was not the only cause of international migratory processes. The partition of India and Pakistan led to large scale migration. There was Punjabi migration to Canada. Several Indians, particularly the Gujaratis travelled to Africa for business reasons. South Indians travelled to the Gulf for employment. There were migrations to East Asian countries under the kangani system. Again, these were not the only reasons. The process of demographic movement from South Asia, has been complex due to innumerable push-pull factors. The subsequent generations of migrants included the twice, thrice (and likewise) displaced members of the diaspora. Racial denigration and Orientalist perceptions plagued their lives. They belonged to various ethnicities and races, inhabited marginalized spaces and strived to acculturate in the host society. Complete cultural assimilation was not possible, creating layered and hyphenated identities. These intricate social processes resulted in amalgamation and cross-pollination of cultures, inter-racial relationships and hybridization in all terrains of culture—language, music, fashion, cuisine and so on. Situated in this matrix was the notion of Home—a special personal space which an individual could feel as belonging to, very strongly. Nostalgia, loss of home, culture shock and interracial encounters problematized this discernment of belongingness and home. These multifarious themes have been captured by women writers from the South Asian region and this book looks at the various aspects related to negotiating home in their narratives.

Author : Nalini Iyer,Pallavi Rastogi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1603296395

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Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature by Nalini Iyer,Pallavi Rastogi Pdf

"Provides college instructors with ideas and pedagogical methods related to South Asian diasporic literature, including works by Caribbean, Indian, Nepalese, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan authors. The contents reflect a wide variety of institutions (e.g., a STEM-focused campus, a Hispanic-serving campus) and courses (e.g., courses in literature, ethnic studies, creative writing)"--

Author : Roxana Palade
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656330943

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South Asian Women Writers Breaking the Tradition of Silence by Roxana Palade Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: The present paper aims at approaching the exceptional cases of five South Asian women writers who grapple in their novels with different manifestations of male violence against women. What will be examined is their aesthetic perspective and representation of the given topic, as well as their significant contribution to the effort of breaking the silence on gender-based violence by transforming it into a speakable subject. The present paper will be limited to analyse its aesthetic engagements by focusing on the following fictional works: Manju Kapur (India) – Home, Taslima Nasrin (Bangladesh) – My Bengali Girlhood, Mukhtar Mai (Pakistan)- In the Name of Honor, Tehmina Durrani (Pakistan) - My Feudal Lord, and Anita Nair (India) - Ladies Coupé. The visible interest in the South Asian literary writing is legitimized by the writers’ argument that the social systems referred to in the texts display a visible predisposition to protect the male abusers and silence the victims. In an attempt to explore their indictments, it is relevant to introduce theories and empirical results from the area of sociology and psychology, as well as pertinent statements of literary critics, Indian and Pakistani writers and journalists. The present paper will contextualize and thematize the issue of gender-based violence and the silence camouflaging it on the basis of the following structural outline: the next chapter will provide a brief view on the phenomenon of violence, then it will deal with one of its particular areas, namely violence against women. Further, the paper will provide the reader an introductive outlook on gender-based violence, its various implications and the objectives of the three sub-chapters on child sexual abuse, rape, and intimate partner violence. The third chapter will be dedicated to the question of silence on male violence against women; the purpose of this chapter will be to investigate the causes of this particular type of silence, its mechanisms and the factors that contribute to its propagation. Also, in focusing on the possibilities and consequences of disrupting the silence on male violence, the paper will seek to discover what are the costs and chances of success of such an non-conformist endeavour. Finally, the last section of the thesis will be concerned with the review of the main ideas developed along the two main chapters in order to verify the substantially and relevance of the arguments.

Author : Feroza Jussawalla,Deborah Fillerup Weagel
Publisher : From Antiquity to Modernity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Postcolonialism in literature
ISBN : 143312890X

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Emerging South Asian Women Writers by Feroza Jussawalla,Deborah Fillerup Weagel Pdf

This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by scholars from India - in particular, those whose voices do not necessarily find themselves in western academic publications. Many South Asian women writers engage with the overall quest for survival, which can be affiliated with all the themes expressed in this volume: trauma, diaspora, injustice, resistance, place, space, language, and identity. The texts discussed herein contribute to the ongoing discourse related to such themes in postcolonial studies and transnational literature, and could be used in courses on South Asian literature, women's writing, postcolonial studies and literature, and world or transnational literature.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666912869

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Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence. Contributors analyze Chadha’s films in the context of cultural milieus including multiculturalism, narration and representation, ethnicity, literary adaptation, and intercultural negotiations, while also exploring Chadha’s own role as an auteur. Scholars of film studies, Indian cinema, diaspora studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009299954

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Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee Pdf

Leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from decolonial perspectives.

Author : Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823305033

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Contemporary Indian English Literature by Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz Pdf

Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically.

Author : Joel Kuortti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443810173

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Writing Imagined Diasporas by Joel Kuortti Pdf

Joel Kuortti’s Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined diasporas challenge “national” discourses. Diaspora brings to mind various contested ideas and images. It can be a positive site for the affirmation of an identity, or, conversely, a negative site of fears of losing that identity. Diaspora signals an engagement with a matrix of diversity: of cultures, languages, histories, people, places, times. What distinguishes diaspora from some other types of travel is its centripetal dimension. It does not only mean that people are dispersed in different places but that they congregate in other places, forming new communities. In such gatherings, new allegiances are forged that supplant earlier commitments. New imagined communities arise that not simply substitute old ones but form a hybrid space in-between various identifications. This book looks into the ways in which diasporic Indian literature handles these issues. In the context of diaspora there is an imaginative construction of collective identity in the making, That a given diaspora comes to be seen as a community is the result of a process of imagining, at the same time creating new marginalities, hybridities and dependencies, resulting in multiple marginalizations, hyphenizations and demands for allegiance. The study concentrates on eleven contemporary women writers from the United States and Canada who write on South Asian diasporic experiences. The writers are Ramabai Espinet, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amulya Malladi, Sujata Massey, Bharati Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Kirin Narayan, Anita Rau Badami, Robbie Clipper Sethi, Shauna Singh Baldwin, and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.

Author : Somjeeta Pandey,Bidhu Chand Murmu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137403056

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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 : Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asians in literature
ISBN : 0954446305

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Picturing South Asian Culture in English by Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza Pdf

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567207361

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes] by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Asian American literature dates back to the close of the 19th century, and during the years following World War II it significantly expanded in volume and diversity. Monumental in scope, this encyclopedia surveys Asian American literature from its origins through 2007. Included are more than 270 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, major works, significant historical events, and important terms and concepts. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical, social, cultural, and legal contexts surrounding Asian American literature and central to the Asian American experience. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and cites works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of essential print and electronic resources. While literature students will value this encyclopedia as a guide to writings by Asian Americans, the encyclopedia also supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to learn about Asian American history and culture, as it pertains to writers from a host of Asian ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Afghans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians, and other Asian Pacific Islanders. The encyclopedia supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn more about Asian American literature. In addition, it supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about the Asian American historical and cultural experience.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498591775

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Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

The South Asian women’s diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places, triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of individual and group histories, personal and collective experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in various narratives? What are the themes/issues they select to portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives depicting South Asian women, their complexly positioned voices, gesturing at the proliferating challenges and reflecting the grim realities of a globalized world.

Author : Celucien L. Joseph,Suchismita Banerjee,Marvin E. Hobson,Danny M. Hoey, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000012521

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat by Celucien L. Joseph,Suchismita Banerjee,Marvin E. Hobson,Danny M. Hoey, Jr. Pdf

Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring diasporic categories and postcolonial themes such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal identity, and moves to investigate Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. The Editors of the collection have carefully compiled works that show how Danticat’s writings may help in building more compassionate and relational human communities that are grounded on the imperative of human dignity, respect, inclusion, and peace.