Home Truths Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain
The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium. Home Truths: Fictions of...
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London
Macmillan Education UK
2002, 2002
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- PASSAGES TO ENGLAND
- Points of Departure: Early Visions of Home and Abroad
- Crossing Over and Shifting the Shapes: Sam Selvon's Londoners
- PART 2: IMAGINARY HOMELANDS
- If the 'House' Falls Down: The Enigma of Writing Survival in V.S Naipaul
- Unfinished Business? Writing 'Home' in Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses
- PART 3: HOMES WITHOUT WALLS
- 'Homing In': Opening Up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder Randhawa
- Birds of Passage: Entering the 'Rooms of Memory' in Sunetra Gupta, Aamer Hussein and Romesh Gunesekera
- Towards a Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Index