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Book SynopsisThis anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women's narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of hanging' between worlds. Historically, imperialism and the indentured/ grimit' system, triggered dispersal of labourers to the various colonies of the British. Of course, this was not the only cause of international migratory processes. The partition of India and Pakistan led to large scale migration. There was Punjabi migration to Canada. Several Indians, particularly the Gujaratis travelled to Africa for business reasons. South Indians travelled to the Gulf for employment. There were migrations to East Asian countries under the kangani system. Again, these were not the only reasons. The process of demographic movement from South A
Table of ContentsIntroduction Shilpa Daithota Bhat PART I: REALIZING TRISHANKU Chapter 1 – Representation & Memorialization of the Experiences of Indian Labour Migrants Marina Carter Chapter 2 – Uprooted and Dispossessed: An Ecocritical Feminist Reading of Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira Chapter 3 – Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora through Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge Maria Alonso Alonso PART II: CONFIGURING HOME Chapter 4 – "There's No Place Like Home": Travel as Erasure in Three, Turn-of-The-Century Narratives Gurbir Singh Jolly Chapter 5 – A Passage from India: The Darkly Funny in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me Setara Pracha Chapter 6 – Relocating Home and Diasporising the South Asian Queer Shuhita Bhattacharjee Chapter 7 – Negotiating Home and Homeland through Women’s Life-Writing Sam Naidu PART III: EXPLORING HOSTLANDS Chapter 8 – Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and the Romance of the Refugee Governess Reshmi J. Hebbar Chapter 9 – Exploring Race in the Poetry of Vandana Khanna, Pireeni Sundaralingam and Dilruba Ahmed Mitali P. Wong Chapter 10 – Corporeality and Search for Home in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction Izabella Kimak Epilogue – Short Story—“Abbey and Me” Vanita Seth
