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South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010

Ruth Maxey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:30th Nov '11

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This book is a sustained attempt to chart and interpret a wide range of recent South Asian diasporic writing from Britain and America in specifically transatlantic terms. This body of literature has grown substantially since the 1970s, receiving not only critical acclaim but also widespread popular interest, and its favoured themes have also found expression in cinematic works. Yet scholars have largely overlooked the transatlantic development of South Asian writing over the past three decades. Maxey's book fill this gap in transatlantic studies by offering fresh readings of canonical writers and texts, while bringing to light lesser-known authors and ideas. Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres, it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major writers and by relating their work to different historical developments, sexual politics, the marketplace and issues of literary value. The book thus engages with longer-established debates as well as intervening in new ways in Atlantic Studies and in such fields as postcolonial literary studies and Asian American cultural studies. Key Features: * A book-length study of recent South Asian diasporic literature in transatlantic terms * Examines a wide range of canonical and under-researched writers * Investigates key themes, the majority of which remain under-explored * Identifies major formal and aesthetic trends and positions works within their wider intellectual and commercial context

"Maxey's learned, comprehensive reading of South Asian diasporic writing through the lens of the transatlantic - attending to the critical balance between aesthetic modes, culture, history, and politics - enacts a crucial paradigm shift in contemporary theory by challenging many of the paradoxes of current approaches to postcolonial and Asian American studies." -- Professor Rocio G. Davis "Calling for rethinking South Asian diasporic writing as an Atlantic phenomenon, this book boldly challenges the black-white framework that has dominated transatlantic studies and the South Asia-centrism that has dominated diaspora studies. A comprehensive and pioneering study of South Asian American and British Asian literature and film that will reorient future scholarship." -- Susan Koshy, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

ISBN: 9780748641888

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 548g

264 pages