Nasta, Susheila
(2002).
Home truths: fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain.
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
Abstract
The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the 'Everyman' of the late Modern period, a symbol of the local and the global, a cultural traveller who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. Home Truths seeks not only to place the individual works of now famous writers within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War, but also to locate their work,as well as the work of many lesser known writers within a cultural, historical and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long-established indigenous traditions. Close critical readings combine with a historical and theoretical overview in this first book to chart the crucial role played by writers of South Asian origin in the belated acceptance of a poetics of black and Asian writing today.
| Item Type: |
Authored Book
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| ISBN: |
0-333-67005-1, 978-0-333-67005-7 |
| Keywords: |
Literature; postcolonial; South Asian; diaspora; migrant writing |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
3162 |
| Depositing User: |
Susheila Nasta
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| Date Deposited: |
22 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:49 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3162 |
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