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Reworlding The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
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Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson
ISBN: 0-313-27794-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27794-8
208 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1992
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 42
Reviews:
  • Reworlding is a valuable work, one that is likely to remain an essential critical text for those interested in the literature of the Indian diaspora.
    —The Toronto South Asian Review
  • Greenwood Press and Nelson are to be congratulated for suggesting new ways of historicizing South Asian diaspora literatures and for providing a bibliographic tool for further research. All the essays in the volume are scholarly and lucid; several are enlightening and provocative, drawing attention to vital narratives of survival and resistance among a brutally unhoused and colonized people.
    —World Literature Today
Description: Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing. In Reworlding, Nelson has commissioned fourteen critical essays by as many scholars to examine major areas of the diaspora--among them Britain, the United States, Canada, Trinidad, Fiji, Singapore, East and South Africa--and prominent literary figures, including Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Kamala Markandaya, Bharati Mukherjee, and Raja Rao. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the various literary traditions within the Indian diaspora share certain common resonances engendered by historical connections, spiritual affinities, and racial memories. Individually, they provide challenging insights into the particular experiences and writers. At the core of the diasporic writing is the haunting presence of India and the shared anguish of personal loss that generate the aesthetics of "reworlding" underlying and unifying this body of literature. This collection will be of value to scholars and students of Indian writing in English, postcolonial writing in general, and the literature of exile and immigration.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Emmanuel S. Nelson
  • The Girmit Ideology Revisited: Fiji Indian Literature by Vijay Mishra
  • V. S. Naipaul: History as Cosmic Irony by P. S. Chauhan
  • Voice in Exile: "Journey" in Raja Rao and V. S. Naipaul by K. Chellappan
  • South Asia/North America: New Dwellings and the Past by Craig Tapping
  • Passages from India: Migrating to America in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee by C. L. Chua
  • "The Sorrows of a Broken Time": Agha Shahid Ali and the Poetry of Loss and Recovery by Lawrence Needham
  • Still Arriving: The Assimilationist Indo-Caribbean Experience of Marginality by Victor Ramraj
  • History and Community Involvement in Indo-Fijian and Indo-Trinidadian Writing by Helen Tiffin
  • Staying Close but Breaking Free: Indian Writers in Singapore by Kirpal Singh
  • Sam Selvon's Tiger: In Search of Self-Awareness by Harold Barratt
  • Indian Writing in East and South Africa: Multiple Approaches to Colonialism and Apartheid by Arlene A. Elder
  • Kamala Markandaya and the Indian Immigrant Experience in Britain by Hena Ahmad
  • Rushdie's Fiction: The World Beyond the Looking Glass by Vijay Lakshmi
  • Author(iz)ing Midnight's Children and Shame: Salman Rushdie's Constructions of Authority by Anuradha Dingwaney
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 91-40939
LCC Class: PR9485
Dewey Class: 820.9
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