This book considers the work of South Asian writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain. Comparing the work of different generations, it shows how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly during the twentieth century.
This book considers the work of South Asian writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain. Comparing the work of different generations, it shows how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly during the twentieth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ruvani Ranasinha completed her PhD in South Asian Anglophone Literature at Oxford University and is a Lecturer at Brunel University. She is the author of Hanif Kureishi: Writers and their Work Series and several articles on postcolonial literature, most recently an article on Salman Rushdie in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Rushdie edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: 1. Shifting Conditions: The changing markets for South Asian writing in Britain during the twentieth century * 2: Self-translation as self-promotion: Nirad C. Chaudhuri and Tambimuttu * 3: Assimilation and resistance: Markandaya and Sivanandan * 4: Writing back, re-writing Britain: Farrukh Dhondy and Salman Rushdie * 5: Staging cultural difference: cultural translation and the politics of representation: Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal * Afterword * Bibliography
* Introduction * 1: 1. Shifting Conditions: The changing markets for South Asian writing in Britain during the twentieth century * 2: Self-translation as self-promotion: Nirad C. Chaudhuri and Tambimuttu * 3: Assimilation and resistance: Markandaya and Sivanandan * 4: Writing back, re-writing Britain: Farrukh Dhondy and Salman Rushdie * 5: Staging cultural difference: cultural translation and the politics of representation: Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal * Afterword * Bibliography
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