| Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women's Narratives: Alien Domiciles Contributor(s): Bhat, Shilpa Daithota (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1498591760 ISBN-13: 9781498591768 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Women |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 2020002933 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |