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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.