British Asian Fiction - Twenty-First-Century Voices

Informationen zum Autor Sara Upstone is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University Klappentext This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns. Zusammenfassung This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose! it offers original new readings of works! among others by Salman Rushie! V. S. Naipaul! Hanif Kureishi! Ravinder Randhawa! Atima Srivastava! Monica Ali and Meera Syal. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul2. Hanif Kureishi3. Ravinder Randhawa4. Atima Srivastava5. Nadeem Aslam6. Meera Syal7. Hari Kunzru8. Monica Ali9. Suhayl SaadiConclusionBibliographyIndex

List of contents

Introduction
1. Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul
2. Hanif Kureishi
3. Ravinder Randhawa
4. Atima Srivastava
5. Nadeem Aslam
6. Meera Syal
7. Hari Kunzru
8. Monica Ali
9. Suhayl Saadi
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sara Upstone is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University

Product details

• Authors: Sara Upstone, Upstone Sara
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780719078323
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7832-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Englisch, 21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.), Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, English, Literaturwissenschaft: ab 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form