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Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women's Narratives
Alien Domiciles
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2020
Summary
The South Asian women’s diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places, triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of individual and group histories, personal and collective experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in various narratives? What are the themes/issues they select to portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives depicting South Asian women, their complexly positioned voices, gesturing at the proliferating challenges and reflecting the grim realities of a globalized world.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9176-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9177-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 “You are here, says the arrow” No access
2 India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? No access
3 “[A] girl from the village: totally unspoilt” No access
4 Ethnography of a Hyphen? The Gendering of Gen-X Diasporic Agency No access
5 Migration and Sexuality in S. J. Sindu’s Marriage of a Thousand Lies No access
6 Reimagining Reluctance No access
7 Negotiating the “Postcolonial Exotic” through Subversive Third-Person Narration in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake No access
