Details

Description

1 online resource (viii, 256 pages).

Series

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-246) and index.

Contents

Introduction: framing South Asian writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010 -- Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- Close encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Brave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- 'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Conclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature.

Summary

The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms. The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. The book engages with established debates, while intervening in new ways in transatlantic studies, postcolonial literary studies and Asian American cultural studies.

Description based on

Print version record.

Subject

American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism.

English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Biography and True Stories.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

American literature -- South Asian American authors.

English literature -- South Asian authors.

Südasiaten.

Literatur.

Englisch.

Großbritannien.

United States.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General.

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Form:

Print version: Maxey, Ruth. South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748641888 (OCoLC)751751648

ISBN

9780748653843 (electronic bk.)

0748653848 (electronic bk.)

9781474423557 (electronic bk.)

1474423558 (electronic bk.)

9780748641888

0748641882