Diaspora poetics and homing in south Asian women's writing : beyond Trishanku /

This book looks at women writers from the south Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space, defined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bhat, Shilpa Daithota (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:	South Asian literature (English) > History and criticism. South Asian literature > History and criticism. South Asian literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Home in literature. South Asian diaspora in literature. Women in literature. South Asia > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Realizing Trishanku. Representation and memorialization of the experiences of Indian labour migrants / Marina Carter; Uprooted and dispossessed: an ecocritical feminist reading of Farida Karodia's other secrets / María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira
Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Maria Alonso Alonso
Configuring home. "There's no place like home": travel as erasure in three, turn-of-the-century narratives / Gurbir Singh Jolly; A passage from India: the darkly funny in Meera Syal's Anita and me / Setara Pracha ; Relocating home and diasporising the South Asian queer / Shuhita Bhattacharjee ; Negotiating home and homeland through women's life-writing / Sam Naidu
Exploring hostlands. Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the romance of the refugee governess / Reshmi J. Hebbar; Exploring race in the poetry of Vandana Khanna / Pireeni Sundaralingam and Dilruba Ahmed / Mitali P. Wong; Corporeality and search for home in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction /
Izabella Kimak
Epilogue : Abbey and me / Vanita Seth.