TY - BOOK ID - 146376224 TI - Home truths : fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain PY - 2002 SN - 0333670051 PB - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - South Asians KW - Emigration and immigration in literature. KW - South Asians in literature. KW - Immigrants in literature. KW - Sud-Asiatiques KW - Émigration et immigration KW - Asiatiques KW - Roman anglais KW - South Asian authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Auteurs d'origine asiatique KW - Critique et interprétation. KW - Southeast Asia KW - Asie du Sud-Est KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146376224 AB - The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a cultural traveler who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif Kureishi within a diverse tradition of immigrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War. It also locates their work within an historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long-established indigenous traditions at 'home' and 'abroad'. ER -