Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction Gender, Narration
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 signific
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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction
Ruvani Ranasinha
Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction Gender, Narration and Globalisation
Ruvani Ranasinha Department of English King’s College London London, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-40304-9 ISBN 978-1-137-40305-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-40305-6
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Also by Ruvani Ransinha: HANIF KUREISHI: WRITERS AND THEIR WORK CULTURE IN TRANSLATION: SOUTH ASIAN WRITERS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN SOUTH ASIANS AND THE SHAPING OF BRITAIN, 1870-1950: A SOURCE BOOK (ed.)
For Rapti and Pradeep
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An earlier version of Chap. 4 was published in Culture, Diaspora and Modernity: Muslim Writing edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaquin (Routledge: 2012) 200-214. I presented some of the material of this book at the South Conference in London in 2012 and at the : South workshop in Johannesburg in 2015 and received valuable feedback. This book is informed by my participation as a co-investigator of the Leverhulme-funded International Network (2014–16). I would like to thank my colleagues at King’s College London for their friendship and support while writing this book, especially Anna Snaith and Neil Vickers. Special thanks to Javed Majeed for reading earlier versions of chapters of this book. Alex Tickell at the Open University kindly read the entire manuscript and made many insightful suggestions. Many thanks to Ben Doyle and Tomas Rene at Palgrave for their enthusiasm for the project and to the reader for incisive feedback.
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