{"product_id":"diasporic-inquiries-into-south-asian-womens-narratives-9781498591768","title":"Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Womens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe South Asian women's diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places, triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of individual and group histories, personal and collective experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in various narratives? What are the themes\/issues they select to portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives depicting South Asian women, their complexly positi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, Shilpa Daithota Bhat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 1: Domicile Tropes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: ‘You are here, says the arrow’: The Body as Home in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi, Setara Pracha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: India, Heat, Dust and Tea?: Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Nicole C. Vosseler, Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: “[A] girl from the village: totally unspoilt”: Nazneen’s ‘Unhomeliness’ in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Sam Naidu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 2: Shifting Domiciles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Ethnography of a Hyphen? The Gendering of Gen-X Diasporic Agency, Gurbir Singh Jolly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Migration and Sexuality in S. J. Sindu’s Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Maryse Jayasuriya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Reimagining Reluctance: The South-Asian Diaspora and Global ‘Homing’ in Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Shuhita Bhattacharjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 3: Domicile Significations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Negotiating the “Postcolonial Exotic” through Subversive Third-Person Narration \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Lara Virginia Kattekola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Singing the Subaltern Woman: Film, feminism and Qawwali in the South Asian diaspora, Lauren Bettridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Song, Narrative, Belonging: The Place of Song in the Oral Histories of Sri Lankan Tamil women in London, Jasmine Hornabrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Domesticating the Alien: Culinary references and food rituals in The Song of the Sun God, Shashikala Assella\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040861290839,"sku":"9781498591768","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498591768.jpg?v=1750948099","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diasporic-inquiries-into-south-asian-womens-narratives-9781498591768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}