The World Next Door - South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah! Vinay Dharwadker! Martha Nussbaum! Bruce Robbins! and Amartya Sen! this book argues that to read the body of South Asian American literature justly! one must engage with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh! Sri Lanka! India! Burma! Pakistan! and Trinidad.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rajini Srikanth
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2005
• EAN: 9781592130818
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-081-8
• Seiten: 296
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Asian American History and Culture Series; Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft