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Oriental literature (English) --- Literature. --- Oriental literature (English) --- Asia --- Asia. --- In literature

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Two kinds of writing experience are focused upon: one is the experience of post-colonial writers, who are re-appropriating the English language for their own cultural purposes. The other is the experience of immigrant writers, who bring an Asian view to bear on the culture of the English-speaking countries in which they live.

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the

Oriental fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Oriental literature (English) --- British writers. --- South Asian descent. --- black British literature. --- diasporic literature. --- gender. --- migrant literature. --- national identity. --- post-9/11 Britain. --- postcolonial literature. --- religious identity.

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The idea of world literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of “national” literary traditions. In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature by its advocates. The notion of a borderless, egalitarian global literature has obvious appeal, he notes, but behind it lurks the continuing dominance of English as a literary language and a cultural system of international reach.The cultural logic of what Edward Said identified as Orientalism continues to structure world literature discourse, Mufti says—although in updated ways that conceal the persistence of the continental and civilizational inequalities of the colonial past. From the beginning, world literature has been an eminently Orientalist idea, one made possible by the translation labors of European Orientalist scholars and the canonizing of Orientalist concepts of cultural difference.World literature has always been a border regime, an implicit set of regulations governing the mobility of various national and local literatures across the world. Mufti explores how English historically achieved its literary preeminence, and he deepens our understanding of how the hegemony of English affects non-European languages—particularly those of India and South Asia—as vessels of literary expression. At the center of the very possibility of world literature is the dominance of English, as both a literary vernacular and the undisputed language of global capitalism.

Littérature asiatique de langue anglaise --- Littérature anglaise --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature et société --- Histoire et critique --- Literature and society. --- Politics and literature. --- English literature --- Literature --- Oriental literature (English) --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Literature. --- Oriental literature (English). --- Orientalisierende Literatur. --- Englisch. --- Weltsprache. --- Weltliteratur. --- World literature. --- Orientalism --- Globalization in literature. --- English language --- History and criticism. --- History --- Globalization. --- Developing countries --- Developing countries. --- Politique et littérature. --- Littérature et société. --- Histoire et critique. --- Comparative literature

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Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. The study argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination that manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D’Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are carefully read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities.

English fiction --- Oriental fiction (English) --- Race in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- English literature --- Oriental literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Great Britain --- Race relations. --- Asian authors --- Ethnicité --- Racisme --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature britannique --- Dans la littérature --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- Critique et interprétation --- Auteurs noirs