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The Diaspora Writes Home

Subcontinental Narratives
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206 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am02.10.20171st ed. 2017
This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts.
Zusammenfassung
Brings together an analysis of creative expressions of South Asian diaspora

Discusses the relation between the diaspora and their homelands through time and space

Focuses on memory, nostalgia and politics as important aspects of diasporic expression

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-981-10-4845-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum02.10.2017
Auflage1st ed. 2017
Seiten206 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht444 g
IllustrationenXI, 206 p.
Artikel-Nr.42737470

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Multiple Locations .- 2. Writing Home: Memory, History and Imagined Spaces.-  3. The Burden of Culture: Between Filiation and Affiliation.- 4. Geographical Dislocations and the Poetics of Exile: Ashis Gupta and Michael Ondaatje.- 5. Memory and Reflection in the Writing of the Diaspora.- 6. Writing in One´s Own Language and the Grounds of Being.- 7. The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of the Indian Diaspora.- 8. Out of the Colonial Cocoon? From The Mimic Men to India: A Million Mutinies Now.- 9. Routes of Passage: Identity, Home and Culture through Dislocations - Dabydeen, Bissoondath and the Naipaul Inheritance.- 10. A Bit of India: Under African Skies.- 11. In Search of Nationhood Across Borders.- 12. Mid-Air Tragedy: The Emperor Kanishka Crash.- 13. Call of the Homeland: The Civil War in Sri Lanka.- 14. Failed Hijrat? Cultural Mourning, Refugees and Muhajirs.- 15. The Diaspora Zeroes in on the Borders.- 16. The Children of Jahazi Bhai: Histories, Cultures and (Dis)Continuities.- 17. To India with Love: Rushdie, Ghosh and Mistry.- 18 Cultural Interpretations/Representations in Film of the Indian Diaspora: Nostalgia, Memory or Spoofing?.- 19. Overwriting Memory: The Diaspora and Its Present.mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Jasbir Jain is the Honorary Director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur and was Sahitya Akademi Writer-in-Residence (2009), and Emeritus Fellow (2001-2003) both at the University of Rajasthan. Recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, she is an elected Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and has had teaching assignments in Europe and the United States. She is the author of Theorising Resistance: Narratives in History and Politics (2012); Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency (2011); Beyond Postcolonialism: Dreams and Realities of a Nation (2006); Gendered Realities, Human Spaces (2003); among several others. Her current interests are in theory and narratology and in exploring traditions.
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