| World Next Door: South Asian American Literature Contributor(s): Srikanth, Rajini (Author) |
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ISBN: 159213081X ISBN-13: 9781592130818 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: This book grows out of the question, "At this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies, what insights can South Asian American writing offer us about living in the world?" South Asian American literature, with its focus on the multiple geographies and histories of the global dispersal of South Asians, pulls back from a close-up view of the United States to reveal a wider landscape of many nations and peoples. South Asian American poets, novelists, and playwrights depict the nation as simultaneously discrete and entwined with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad. Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, Martha Nussbaum, Bruce Robbins, and Amartya Sen, this book exhorts North American residents to envision connectedness with inhabitants of other lands. The world out there arrives next door. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 2003070260 |
| Series: Asian American History & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.62" W x 8.7" (0.84 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Asks What is South Asian American writing and what insights can it offer us about living in the world at this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies? |