1st Edition

Living In America Poetry And Fiction By South Asian American Writers

By Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Copyright 1995
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    This anthology shows the influences of Western literature and the Western literary traditions, especially as they exist in world literature written in English. It contains stories and poems dealing with South Asian American experiences and presents the evocative themes of love, loss, and exile.

    Credits -- Introduction -- Crossing the Dark Waters -- Poetry -- Meena Alexander -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Indran Amirthanayagam -- G. S. Sharat Chandra -- Darius Cooper -- Rienzi Crusz -- Chitra Divakaruni -- Minai Hajratwala -- Diane S. Mehta -- Panna Naik -- Saleem Peeradina -- Jyotsna Sanzgiri -- Rashmi Sharma -- Neera Kuckreja Sohoni -- Amita Vasudeva -- Fiction -- Qiron Adhikary -- Meena Alexander -- Boman Desai -- Chitra Divakaruni -- Lakshmi Gill -- Anu Gupta -- Naseem A. Hines -- Litu Kabir -- Anuradha Mannar -- Ved Mehta -- Tara Menon -- Tahira Naqvi -- Kirin Narayan -- Usha Nilsson -- Rajesh C. Oza -- Uma Parameswaran -- Javaid Qazi -- Sarita Sarvate -- Neila C. Seshachari -- Moazzam Sheikh -- Ranbir Sidhu -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Neera Kuckreja Sohoni -- Jyotsna Sreenivasan -- Rajini Srikanth -- About the Contributors -- About the Book and Editor

    Biography

    Roshni Rustomji-Kerns