Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.
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