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Unreliable truths : transcultural homeworlds in indian women's fiction of the diaspora /

While many people see 'home' as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Helff, Sissy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 155.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Homemaking in a Globalized World; PART ONEOF SOCIAL AND IMAGINARY HOMEWORLDS; 1 South Asian Homeworlds, Transnational Alliances; 2 Common Narrative Ground:Transcultural Narrative Unreliability; PART TWO HOMING IN ON UNRELIABLE STORYTELLING; 3 Fictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia's Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; 4 Growing Up in Transcultural Diasporic Worlds:Suneeta Peres da Costa's Homework, Meera Syal'sAnita and Me, and Shobha Dé's Strange Obsession. 
505 8 |a 5 Transcultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo's Tide RunningConclusion:South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural Imaginary; Works Cited; Index. 
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