Overview
Brings together an analysis of creative expressions of South Asian diaspora
Discusses the relation between the diaspora and their homelands through time and space
Focuses on memory, nostalgia and politics as important aspects of diasporic expression
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- diasporic writing and postcolonialism
- Meatless Days
- first generation diaspora
- Broken Verses
- rooted memories
- memory and mourning
- The Kite Runner
- memory as personal perspective
- collective memory
- narratives of war
- Sri Lankan civil war
- Family Matters
- The Reluctant Findamentalist
- diasporic connection with meaningful past
- Boys Will Be Boys
- re-awakening of pain i n narratives
- Noor
- diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's works
- Naipaul and the Caribbean diaspora
- films of Indian diaspora
About this book
This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, ‘how does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the homeland's relationship to the diaspora as representatives of the contemporary homeland in another country?’. The last is an interesting point of discussion since the 'present' of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The transformations that new locations have brought about as migrants have travelled through time and interacted with the politics of their settled lands---Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh---have altered their affiliations and perspectives.
This book gathers multiple dispersions of emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The word ‘write’ is used in its multiplicity to refer to creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity, and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which need to be problematised vis-à -vis the writer and his/her emotional location.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Diaspora Writes Home
Book Subtitle: Subcontinental Narratives
Authors: Jasbir Jain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4845-6Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5246-1Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4846-3Published: 13 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 206
Topics: Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial/World Literature, Social Anthropology