The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the South Asian review. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Index. Notes on contributors -- Looking backward to a distant land: South Asian diaspora and function of nostalgia in "Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs," "Mrs. Sen's" and The Inheritance of Loss / Farzana Akhter -- Between World and home: Tagore and Goethe / R. Radhakrishnan -- "Against the biggest buccaneering enterprise in living history:: Krishna Menon and the colonial response to international crisis / Brant Moscovitch -- Bodies in translation/transition: (re)writing Kashmir, Kaschmir, cashmere in Agha Shahid Ali's poetry / Wafa Hamid -- Home, away from home: violence, womanhood and home/land in Jahnavi Barusa's fiction / Uddipana Goswami -- From cheap labor to overlooked citizens: looking for British Muslim identities in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire / Debjani Banerjee -- Dastan-e Amir Hamza and Salman Rushdie's Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights / Anonymous Author -- Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Nandikar, and the World: staging world literature in Bengali / Souradeep Roy -- Queering the colonial in Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming in the Monsoon Sea / Tuli Chatterji -- At the interface of colonial knowing and unknowing: a critical reading of the golden camellia in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke / Gaana Jayagopalan -- Unveiling the transcultural: the question of identity in Suneeta Peres da Costa's Saudade / Khaoula Chakour -- Looking backward to a distant land: South Asian diaspora and function of nostalgia in "Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs," "Mrs. Sen's" and The Inheritance of Loss / Farzana Akhter -- Index.
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