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Author:   Madhurima Chakraborty (Columbia College Chicago)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032160207

ISBN 10:   1032160209
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   31 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Introduction: South Asian Literature and the World 2. Between World and Home: Tagore and Goethe 3. ""Against the Biggest Buccaneering Enterprise in Living History"": Krishna Menon and the Colonial Response to International Crisis 4. Bodies in Translation/Transition: (Re)Writing Kashmir, Kaschmir, Cashmere in Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetry 5. Home, Away from Home: Violence, Womanhood and Home/Land in Jahnavi Barua’s Fiction 6. From Cheap Labor to Overlooked Citizens: Looking for British Muslim Identities in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire 7. Dastan-e Amir Hamza and Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 8. Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Nandikar, and the World: Staging World Literature in Bengali 9. Queering the Colonial in Shyam Selvadurai’s Swimming in the Monsoon Sea 10. At the Interface of Colonial Knowing and Unknowing: A Critical Reading of the Golden Camellia in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke 11. Unveiling the Transcultural: The Question of Identity in Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade 12. Looking Backward to a Distant Land: South Asian Diaspora and Function of Nostalgia in ""Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs,"" ""Mrs. Sen’s"" and The Inheritance of Loss"

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Madhurima Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the English and Creative Writing department at Columbia College Chicago. She is one of the editors of Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature, the editor of South Asian Review’s special issue on South Asian Literatures in the World, and co-editor of another SAR special issue on The Nation and Its Discontents. Her shorter work has also appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Literature/Film Quarterly, and South Asian Review, among others.

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