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Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature

By Christin Hoene Copyright 2015
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy , Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag , Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag , Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia... Read more
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Biography

Christin Hoene is Assistant Lecturer of English Literature at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany and the University of Potsdam, Germany.