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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
155. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 5 Transcultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo's Tide RunningConclusion:South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural Imaginary; Works Cited; Index.