Bombay--London--New York

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

1: Paper; 2: Going Back; I: Part I; 3: Bombay; 4: In the Light of Small Towns; 5: Writer in the Hinterland; II: Part II; 6: London; 7: Pure Chutney; 8: My Hanif Kureishi Life; III: Part III; 9: New York; 10: Digital City; 11: Traveling Light; 12: Flight; 13: Epilogue

About the author

Amitava Kumar is Associate Professor of English at Penn State and the author of Passport Photos. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, and the New Statesman, among others. He is the winner of the Asian Age Award for short fiction.He aslo wrote the script and narrated the prize-wining documentary film Pure Chutney.

Summary

First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages. BR>There is no beginning that is a blank page, writes Kumar. Circling the three capitals of the Indian diaspora, Bombay-London-New York captures the contours of the expatriate experience, touching on the themes of abandonment, nostalgia, and exile that have powered some of the most prominent Indian writers today -- Naipaul, Rushdie, Roy, Kureishi, as well as E.M. Forster and Gandhi. BR>With resonant, poetic language and a storyteller's sensibility, Kumar explores the works of these writers through the lens of his own life as an immigrant and writer. As their fiction reveals, the past of the expatriate is mythical,shaped by memory and loss. BR>With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, passionate search to find one's own story in the stories of others.

Product details

• Authors: Amitava Kumar, Kumar Amitava
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2002
• EAN: 9780415942102
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94210-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Weight: 700 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Humanities, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity