The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
ISBN-13:
9780415759694
ISBN-10:
0415759692
Edition:
1
Author:
Vijay Mishra
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
312 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780415759694
ISBN-10:
0415759692
Edition:
1
Author:
Vijay Mishra
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
312 pages
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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) (ISBN-13: 9780415759694 and ISBN-10: 0415759692), written by authors
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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the particular locations of both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma, mourning/impossible mourning, spectres, identity, travel, translation, and recognition, Mishra uses the term ‘imaginary’ to refer to any ethnic enclave in a nation-state that defines itself, consciously or unconsciously, as a group in displacement. He examines the works of key writers, many now based across the globe in Canada, Australia, America and the UK, – V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, David Dabydeen, Rohinton Mistry and Hanif Kureishi, among them – to show how they exemplify both the diasporic imaginary and the respective traumas of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Indian diasporas.
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