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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women´s Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation
Ruvani Ranasinha
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Description for Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women´s Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137403049
SKU
V9781137403049
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About Ruvani Ranasinha
Ruvani Ranasinha is a Reader in Postcolonial Literatures in the Department of English, King s College London
Reviews for Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women´s Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation
The book examines the interlinkages of gender with the narratives of a globalised world, each existing in a complex relationship with nation-states, their imaginaries, and with cognate concepts of rootedness and belonging. ... Ranasinha's book is thus an important intervention in the critical debates around the political purchase of diasporic, transnational, and cosmopolitan writing. (Divya Mehta, Textual Practice, Vol. ... Read more