Living in America - Fiction and Poetry By South Asian American Writers

The book includes both a historical introduction and one exploring South Asian literary traditions and the concept of the collection.

List of contents

Credits -- Introduction -- Crossing the Dark Waters -- Poetry -- Meena Alexander -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Indran Amirthanayagam -- G. S. Sharat Chandra -- Darius Cooper -- Rienzi Crusz -- Chitra Divakaruni -- Minai Hajratwala -- Diane S. Mehta -- Panna Naik -- Saleem Peeradina -- Jyotsna Sanzgiri -- Rashmi Sharma -- Neera Kuckreja Sohoni -- Amita Vasudeva -- Fiction -- Qiron Adhikary -- Meena Alexander -- Boman Desai -- Chitra Divakaruni -- Lakshmi Gill -- Anu Gupta -- Naseem A. Hines -- Litu Kabir -- Anuradha Mannar -- Ved Mehta -- Tara Menon -- Tahira Naqvi -- Kirin Narayan -- Usha Nilsson -- Rajesh C. Oza -- Uma Parameswaran -- Javaid Qazi -- Sarita Sarvate -- Neila C. Seshachari -- Moazzam Sheikh -- Ranbir Sidhu -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Neera Kuckreja Sohoni -- Jyotsna Sreenivasan -- Rajini Srikanth -- About the Contributors -- About the Book and Editor

About the author

Roshni Rustomji-Kerns

Summary

This anthology shows the influences of Western literature and the Western literary traditions, especially as they exist in world literature written in English. It contains stories and poems dealing with South Asian American experiences and presents the evocative themes of love, loss, and exile.

Product details

• Authors: Roshni Rustomji, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
• Assisted by: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (Editor), Rashmi Sharma (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.1995
• EAN: 9780813323787
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2378-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Anthologien (nicht Lyrik)