Home truths : fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain / Susheila Nasta.

Author/creator Nasta, Susheila
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
English literature--South Asian authors. --History and criticism.
South Asians--Great Britain. --Intellectual life.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
South Asians in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Southeast Asia--In literature.

Contents Prologue: some home truths? -- Points of departure: early visions of 'home' and 'abroad' -- Crossing over and shifting the shapes: Sam Selvon's Londoners -- If the 'house' falls down: the enigma of writing survival in V.S. Naipaul -- Writing home: 'unfinished business' in Salman Rushdie and The Satanic verses -- 'Homing in': opening up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder Randhawa -- Birds of passage: the 'rooms of memory' in Romesh Gunesekera, Sunetra Gupta, Amer Hussein -- Epilogue: some notes towards a conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.
LCCN 2001133053
ISBN0333670051

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR129.A785 N37 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold