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Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- South Asian diaspora in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Feminism and literature. --- Women in literature. --- African literature (English) --- South Asian literature (English) --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, ‘home’ remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in South Asian diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies. .

Culture --- Ethnology --- Historiography. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Asian Culture. --- Migration. --- Memory Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Asia. --- South Asian diaspora in literature. --- South Asians --- South Asian literature --- South Asian literature (English) --- Social conditions. --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Asians --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization