Contemporary diasporic South Asian women's fiction : gender, narration and globalisation

Contemporary diasporic South Asian women's fiction : gender, narration and globalisation / Ruvani Ranasinha.

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 postcolo...

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Main Author: Ranasinha, Ruvani (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
1900-2099
South Asian fiction > Criticism and interpretation > 21st century.
Literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
Fiction.
Oriental literature.
Literature, Modern.
fiction (general genre)
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literature: history & criticism.
Fiction & related items.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
South Asian fiction
Fiction
Literature
Literature, Modern
Oriental literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Globalisation, labour, narrative and representation in Arunhati Roy, Monica Ali and Kiran Desai
  • War, violence and memory: gendered national imaginaries in Tahmima Anam, Sorayya Khan and contemporary Sri Lankan women writers
  • Resistance and religion: gender, Islam and agency in Kamila Shamsie, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali and Ameena Hussein
  • Migration, gender and globalisation in Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Women writing postcolonial cities: Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam.

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