Literature of the Indian Diaspora - Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

List of contents

Acknowledgements. Prologue 'That Time is Past'. Introduction: The Diasporic Imaginary 1. The Girmit Ideology 2. Indenture and Diaspora Poetics 3. Traumatic Memory, Mourning and V.S. Naipaul 4. Diaspora and the Multicultural State 5. The Law of the Hyphen and the Post-Colonial Condition 6. Diasporic Narratives of Salman Rushdie Epilogue The Subaltern Speaks. Works Cited

About the author

Vijay Mishra

Summary

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Vijay Mishra, Mishra Vijay
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780415759694
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75969-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature