Indian Literatures in Diaspora

✍ Scribed by Sireesha Telugu (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 179
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

<p>This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities. It will be of interest to academics in the field of SA Studies, SA literature, Asian literature, diaspora and literary studies.</p>

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Glossary
Introduction: Linguistic and Literary Identities
1. Shifting Contours of Identification: Contemporary Tamil Diasporic Writing
2. Partitions, Naxalbari, and Intergenerational Diasporic Bengali Identities in Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Purba Paschim (East West)
3. Marathi Diasporic Literature: Understanding Anxieties, Identities and Diversity in Select Fiction
4. Intersections of the Vernacular and the Diaspora: The Genre of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) and the Pravasi (Migrant) Writer Usha Priyamvada
5. Diasporic Writings of Indian Nepalis: Issues of History and Identity
6. Remapping the Land: Displacement and Memory in Benyamin’s Aadujeevitham and Khadeeja Mumtaz’s Barsa
7. Hostlands, Homelands and the Odia Diaspora: From Boyita to Biman
8. The Dynamics of Movement in G.S. Nakshdeep Panjkoha’s Girvi Hoye Mann: Would the Twain Never Meet?
Index

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