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British Asian Fiction

Upstone, Sara:
British Asian fiction : twenty-first-century voices / Sara Upstone. - Manchester and New York : Manchester University Press (distr. in the US by Palgrave Macmillan), 2010. - 247 S.
ISBN 978-0-7190-7832-3 (hbk.)
£ 55,00
ISBN 978-0-7190-7833-0 (pbk.)
£ 15,99
DDC: 823.9209891411

Beschreibung
This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this ‘new’ generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference.
   Focusing on the diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. vi
Introduction. 1
1. Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul. 13
2. Hanif Kureishi. 37
3. Ravinder Randhawa. 62
4. Atima Srivastava. 82
5. Nadeem Aslam. 101
6. Meera Syal. 120
7. Hari Kunzru. 142
8. Monica Ali. 167
9. Suhayl Saadi. 190
Conclusion. 209
Bibliography. 219
Index. 241

Autor
SARA UPSTONE is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University. Profile page.

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