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Reflecting the continuing interest in diaspora and transnationalism, this collection of critical essays is located at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies, exploring multiple ways in which literature negotiates, interprets and performs gender within established and emerging ethnic spaces. Based on current theories of diaspora, as well as feminist and queer studies, this collection focuses on close textual interpretation framed by cultural and literary theory. Targeted at both the a.
Indic literature (English) --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- East Indian diaspora. --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- Diaspora, East Indian --- East Indians --- Human geography --- History and criticism. --- Diaspora --- Migrations
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"South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous, but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, 'colored,' English, and Indian. None can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims the members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this study argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly, out of the experience of diasporic displacement, migration, and relocation, from the colonial, African, and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa, as well as diasporic dislocations within Africa. The book contains 20 works by 12 contemporary South African novelists - Breyten Breytenbach, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Aziz Hassim, Michiel Heyns, Elsa Joubert, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karel Schoeman, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoe Wicomb - and shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction, and how the diasporic subject is a most recognizable figure."--Back cover.
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"The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary" constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the 'old' Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the 'new' diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the particular locations of both the 'old' and the 'new' in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma, mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity, travel, translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term 'imaginary' to refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that defines itself, consciously or unconsciously, as a group in displacement. He examines the works of key writers, many now based across the globe in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, - V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, David Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi, among them - to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of the 'old' and 'new' Indian diasporas.
East Indian diaspora in literature. --- Indic literature (English) --- East Indian diaspora in literature --- East Indians --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- India --- In literature. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Indians (India) --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Indiens de l'Inde --- Inde --- Diasporas --- À l'étranger --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle
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Indian Writers attempt to locate diasporic voices in the interstitial spaces of countless ideologies. The anthology provides a critical examination of dislocated diasporic subjects - those who have adjusted to the dislocation well, those who have chosen the hybrid spaces for empowerment, those who are dragged forcefully to various territories, and yet those who gleefully inhabit trans-local spaces. A wide range of voices raise these critical questions: How do we read these voices? How are the voices received in various locations? Are these voices considered Indian? Do they represent Indianness, or some hybridized version of it? What is an authentic cultural identity? What, ultimately, is Indianness, or for that matter, any hard-won national or ethnic identity? Additionally, as more female writers are being read, both in the global south and in the north, the reception of these texts, particularly in an era of globalization, and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in the United States, raises questions on how the «other», the subaltern, is represented and read. Some writers use an assimilationist approach to the cultures of the West to such a degree that they find Indian culture monolithically oppressive, while others continue to romanticize Indianness, yet others eroticize and ethnicize the east for western consumption. The authors of the essays in this anthology examine contemporary debates in postcolonial and transnational literary criticism in an attempt to understand the often complex and hybrid narratives of the diasporic Indian subject.
Indic literature (English) --- East Indians --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Sud-Africains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) --- À l'étranger --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle
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Group identity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- East Indians --- South African fiction (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- Intellectual life. --- East Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas, for instance, forms of Indo-Caribbean cultural expression in music, cuisine, or religion are more readily accepted as creolizing (thus, Caribbeanizing) processes, an Indo-Caribbean literary imaginary has rarely been studied as such. Discussing the work of Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, and Shani Mootoo, Contradictory Indianness maintains that the writers' engagement with the regional and transnational poetics of the Caribbean underscores symbolic bridges between cultural worlds conventionally set apart—the Africanized and Indianized—and distinguishes between cultural worlds assumed to be the same—indenture and South Asian Indianness. This book privileges Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean, and continued to impose a fragmentary and disconnected study of (post)indenture aesthetics within indenture’s own transnational cartography.
Caribbean fiction (English) --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- East Indians in literature. --- East Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Indian, Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, colonization, migration, migrants, immigrants, immigration, art, music, culture, Caribbean Studies, South Asian, Desi, Literature, Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, Shani Mootoo, creole, creolization, indentured servitude.
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Group identity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- East Indians --- South African fiction (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- Intellectual life. --- East Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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