Contemporary diasporic South Asian women's fiction : gender, narration and globalisation /
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Globalisation, labour, narrative and representation in Arunhati Roy, Monica Ali and Kiran Desai
- War, violence and memory: gendered national imaginaries in Tahmima Anam, Sorayya Khan and contemporary Sri Lankan women writers
- Resistance and religion: gender, Islam and agency in Kamila Shamsie, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali and Ameena Hussein
- Migration, gender and globalisation in Jhumpa Lahiri
- Women writing postcolonial cities: Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam.