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Away : the Indian Writer as an Expatriate.

For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others. Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is ed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kumar, Amitava
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Longing and Belonging
  • PROLOGUE
  • England
  • Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies
  • A to Z Street Atlas
  • Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.
  • PART I
  • Advertisements in Brighton 1822-38
  • My First Visit to England
  • Letters and Notes
  • In England and South Africa
  • Letters
  • The Sum Total of Good I Can Do
  • In the Modern World
  • Lions and Shadows in the Sherry Party in Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop
  • Red Indians in England
  • PART II
  • My America
  • Changes of Scenery
  • Speaking in Tongues
  • Naturalized Citizen No. 984-5165
  • Some Indian Uses of History on a Rainy Day
  • The Ceremony of Farewell
  • Eating the Eggs of Love
  • Two Ways to Belong in America
  • Wild Women, Wild Men
  • The Cowpath to America
  • PART III
  • Oxford
  • Indoor Language
  • Gold Emporium
  • The First Letter Home
  • Vegetarian Summer
  • When on Route 80 in Ohio
  • Swimming Lessons
  • The Imam and I
  • Flight
  • EPILOGUE
  • There's No Place Like Home
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.