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

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

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Authors Rajini Srikanth
Publisher Temple University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2005
 
EAN 9781592130818
ISBN 978-1-59213-081-8
No. of pages 296
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
Series Asian American History and Culture Series
Asian American History & Cultu
Asian American History & Cultu
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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