Introduction: Linguistic and Literary Identities Sireesha Telugu; 1. Shifting Contours of Identification: Contemporary Tamil Diasporic Writing V. Bharathi Harishankar; 2. Partitions, Naxalbari, and Intergenerational Diasporic Bengali Identities in Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Purba Paschim (East West) Avishek Parui; 3. Marathi Diasporic Literature: Understanding Anxieties, Identities and Diversity in Select Fiction Vaishali Diwakar; 4. Intersections of the Vernacular and the Diaspora: The Genre of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) and the Pravasi (Migrant) writer: Usha Priyamvada Anjali Chaubey; 5. Diasporic Writings of Indian Nepalis: Issues of History and Identity Bhaskar Lama; 6. Remapping the Land: Displacement and Memory in Benyamin’s Aadujeevitham and Khadeeja Mumtaz’s Barsa Rajesh V. Nair; 7. Hostlands, Homelands and the Odia Diaspora: From Boyita to Biman Madhusmita Pati; 8. The Dynamics of Movement in G.S. Nakshdeep Panjkoha’s Girvi Hoye Mann: Would the Twain Never Meet? Sumneet Kaur Pahwa; Glossary
Biography
Sireesha Telugu teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. Her research interests include Indian Diaspora and Literature, South Asian Diaspora, American Literature, and Indian Writing in English. She is the author of Diasporic Indian Women Writers: Quest for Identity in their Short Stories (2009).
