Indian-American Diasporic Literature

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The twenty four essays in this volume deal with the major Indian-American writers and explore the thematic concerns and issues that they raise, such as crisis of alienation and squalor, search for identity, complexities of immigrant experience, new world religion, exposition of terrorism and human rights, globalization, and marginality.

The writers studied in this book include Anita Desai, V. S. Naipaul, Edward Said, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Meena Alexander, Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseini, Vikram Seth, Iqbal Ramoowalia, Kiran Desai and Bharati Mukherjee.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.K. Dhawan

R.K. Dhawan teaches English at S.B.S. College, University of Delhi. He has lectured extensively at many universities, including those at Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Singapore, Tunisia, Italy and Australia. He has published several articles and books. He is the editor of The commonwealth Review, a bi-annual journal devoted to the new literatures.

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Title
Indian-American Diasporic Literature
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789382186205
Length
184p., 23cm.
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