British Asian Fiction: Twenty-first Century Voices

✍ Scribed by Upstone, Sara

• Book ID: 126971662
• Publisher: Macmillan [distributor, Manchester University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9780719078323

✦ Synopsis

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 diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns.

✦ Subjects

Movements Periods Ancient Classical Arthurian Romance Beat Generation Feminist Gothic Romantic LGBT Medieval Modern Modernism Postmodernism Renaissance Shakespeare Surrealism Victorian History Criticism Literature Fiction Asian Chinese Indian Japanese Regional Cultural British Irish European Contemporary Dramas Plays Historical Horror Humor Satire Poetry Reference Test Preparation Almanacs Yearbooks Atlases Maps Careers Catalogs Directories Consumer Guides Dictionaries Thesauruses Encyclopedias