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Title:
Exploring gender in the literature of the Indian diaspora / edited by Sandhya Rao Mehta.
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
x, 200 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Indic literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Indic literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
East Indian diaspora in literature.
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.
East Indian diaspora in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Indic literature (English)
Sex role in literature.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Authors:
Mehta, Sandhya Rao, eidtor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Something is happening : narrating queerness in the films of Karan Johar / Margaret Redlich. Part III. Reading gender -- Gender and the Indian emergency : representation of women in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / Gemma Scott -- Communal violence and women at home and in the diaspora in Anita Rau Badami's Can you hear the nightbird call? / Sanchari Sur -- Purdah and zenana : re-visioning conventions / Tulika Bahuguna -- Part II. Writing gender -- Blurring borders/blurring bodies : diaspora and womanhood / Monbinder Kaur -- Diasporic mobility and identity in flux in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men and Monica Ali's Brick lane / Stephanie Stonehewer Southmayd -- Gendered diasporic identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's The namesake and Monica Ali's Brick lane / Elizabeth Jackson -- Kitchen politics and the search for an identity : The mango season / Shashikala Muthumal Assella -- Clothing, gender, and diaspora / Priyanka Sacheti -- Part III. Performing gender -- The masculinisation of the native gentleman : a close reading of Neel Haldar in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of poppies / Uma Jayaraman -- Sexual realisation in historical, social and cultural context : Abha Dawesar's Babyji / Harshi Syal Gill -- Something is happening : narrating queerness in the films of Karan Johar / Margaret Redlich.
ISBN:
1443868779
9781443868778
OCLC:
(OCoLC)895730530
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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