Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

SUSHEILA NASTA is Research Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. She is also Associate Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, and Editor of Wasafiri.

'It is solid, well argued, filled with ideas and insights, and the product of many years of research.' - Bruce King, World Literature Today 'A long overdue survey of the wealth of British Asian diaspora writing, which not only identifies the main trends in such writing, but also looks closely at the work of a broad range of major and less well-known figures.' - John Thieme, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 'As a complex critical engagement with important - famous and neglected - texts of the South Asian diaspora in Britain, Home Truths remains an immensely enabling study and one that can be recommended wholeheartedly to students and teachers.' - Tabish Khair, Wasasfiri 'Nasta's ability to explicate different positions within the literary aesthetics of South-Asian diaspora writing in Britain as a whole, makes her book particularly valuable for postgraduate researchers and teachers of South-Asian literature. It provides a lucid, practical overview of a subject that resists simple definitions and is, by its very nature, 'discontinuous and frequently involve[s] a doubling of vision' and 'accountable to more than one location'.' - Modernism and Modernity, Alex Tickell

• IntroductionPART 1: PASSAGES TO ENGLANDPoints of Departure: Early Visions of Home and AbroadCrossing Over and Shifting the Shapes: Sam Selvon's LondonersPART 2: IMAGINARY HOMELANDSIf the 'House' Falls Down: The Enigma of Writing Survival in V.S NaipaulUnfinished Business? Writing 'Home' in Salman Rushdie and The Satanic VersesPART 3: HOMES WITHOUT WALLS'Homing In': Opening Up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder RandhawaBirds of Passage: Entering the 'Rooms of Memory' in Sunetra Gupta, Aamer Hussein and Romesh GunesekeraTowards a ConclusionFurther ReadingIndex.