Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives

Alien Domiciles

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-28
Mått:160 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498591768

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Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India.

Recensioner i media

For an anthropologist, these original and insightful essays on diasporic novels, music, and performance in the South Asian diaspora open up fascinating old-new questions about the subtleties and ironies of seemingly intractable crucibles surrounding women and home(ing): of hyphenated identities, fluid sexualities, transnational living and the ambivalences of belonging.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Shilpa Daithota BhatSection 1: Domicile TropesChapter 1: ‘You are here, says the arrow’: The Body as Home in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi, Setara PrachaChapter 2: India, Heat, Dust and Tea?: Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler, Alejandra Moreno-ÁlvarezChapter 3: “[A] girl from the village: totally unspoilt”: Nazneen’s ‘Unhomeliness’ in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Sam NaiduSection 2: Shifting DomicilesChapter 4: Ethnography of a Hyphen? The Gendering of Gen-X Diasporic Agency, Gurbir Singh JollyChapter 5: Migration and Sexuality in S. J. Sindu’s Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Maryse JayasuriyaChapter 6: Reimagining Reluctance: The South-Asian Diaspora and Global ‘Homing’ in Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Shuhita BhattacharjeeSection 3: Domicile SignificationsChapter 7: Negotiating the “Postcolonial Exotic” through Subversive Third-Person Narration in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Lara Virginia KattekolaChapter 8: Singing the Subaltern Woman: Film, feminism and Qawwali in the South Asian diaspora, Lauren BettridgeChapter 9: Song, Narrative, Belonging: The Place of Song in the Oral Histories of Sri Lankan Tamil women in London, Jasmine HornabrookChapter 10: Domesticating the Alien: Culinary references and food rituals in The Song of the Sun God, Shashikala Assella