Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study.

India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950

Literature & Fiction

Nasta, Susheila

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain seeks not only to place the individual works of now world famous writers such as VS Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif Kureishi within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War, but also locates their work, as well as many lesser known writers such as Attia Hosain, GV Desani, Aubrey Menen, Ravinder Randhawa and Romesh Gunesekera within a historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long established indigenous traditions as well as colonial and post-colonial visions of 'home' and 'abroad'. Close critical readings combine with a historical and theoretical overview in this first book to chart the crucial role played by writers of South Asian origin in the belated acceptance of a literary poetics of black and Asian writing in Britain today.

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Red Globe Press

Jamaica Kincaid (Writers and their Work)

History & Criticism

Northcote House Publishers

Jamaica Kincaid is now established as one of the Caribbean's most distinguished literary voices. This study explores recent theories of postcolonial 'life-writing', this study unravels the complex aesthetic and subversive political strategies Kincaid has invented in the past 40 years to continue to write a life.

"This ground-breaking book will be especially valuable to women's studies, black and third world studies, and world literature scholars and students."ÐÐKarla Holloway, North Carolina State University Motherlands is the first critical work to compare and contrast women's writing in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Although critical attention has recently focused on and applauded the work of such Afro-American writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Gloria Naylor, and others, and although we are just beginning to look at the writings of Caribbean women, there are many excellent women writers in other parts of the world whose voices are just beginning to be heard. Their writings are important to developing theory on writings by women of color. That theory, in turn, has opened a dialogue with and a critique of feminist theories about women's writing, which frequently universalize in a manner that excludes women of color. This book is a major contribution to that debate. The contributors to this volume reexamine the mythology of "motherhood" already well explored in feminist literary debate, applying these ideas for the first time to a burgeoning post-colonial literature. The writers discussed include Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Ama Ata Aidoo, Joan Riley, Olive Senior, Nayantara Sahgal and Nawal el Sa'adawi. Each is considered both within her own "mother-culture" and alongside her literary sisters worldwide. The contributors are Ranjana Ash, Elleke Boehmer, Jane Bryce, Abena Busia, Shirley Chew, Carolyn Cooper, Margaret M. Dunn, Elaine Savory Fido, Lyn Innes, Helen Kanitkar, Valery Kibera, Ann R. Morris, Judy Newman, Laura Niesen de Abruna, Velma Pollard, Caroline Rooney, and Isabel Carrera Suarez.

Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia

Rutgers University Press

Motherlands: Black Womens

Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study.

This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean and East Africa. Asian Britain vividly charts Britain’s process of coming to terms with the historic realities of its culturally diverse past and present.

Asian Britain: A Photographic History

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The Westbourne Press

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India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Jamaica Kincaid (Writers and their Work)

Jamaica Kincaid (Writers and their Work)

Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia

Motherlands: Black Womens

India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950

Asian Britain: A Photographic History