Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

by Susheila Nasta

• ISBN13: 9781403932686
• ISBN10: 1403932689
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2017-04-20
• Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

Summary

The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a cultural traveler who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. "Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain" seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif Kureishi within a diverse tradition of immigrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War. It also locates their work within an historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long-established indigenous traditions at 'home' and 'abroad'.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Some Home Truths?

Passages to England

Points of Departure: Early Visions of Homeand Abroad

Crossing Over and Shifting the Shapes: Sam Selvon'sLondoners

Imaginary Homelands

If the 'House' Falls Down: The Enigma of Writing Survival in V.S. Naipaul

Writing Home: 'Unfinished Business' in Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses

Homes Without Walls

'Homing In': Opening Up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder Randhawa

Birds of Passage: the 'Rooms of Memory' in Sunetra Gupta, Aamer Hussein, Romesh Gunesekera

Prologue: Some Home Truths?

Passages to England

Points of Departure: Early Visions of Homeand Abroad

Crossing Over and Shifting the Shapes: Sam Selvon'sLondoners

Imaginary Homelands

If the 'House' Falls Down: The Enigma of Writing Survival in

Writing Home: 'Unfinished Business' in Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

Homes Without Walls

'Homing In': Opening Up 'Asian' Britain in Hanif Kureishi and Ravinder Randhawa

Birds of Passage: the 'Rooms of Memory' in Sunetra Gupta, Aamer Hussein, Romesh Gunesekera

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