Global South Asia

This book collects essays that take on the excavatory, critical, and generative work of rethinking the relationship between South Asia and the world.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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