1st Edition
Negotiating Home and Belonging in the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
Ajaya K. Sahoo
1. Exorcising Traumas: Jude Ratnam’s Demons in Paradise
Paul Veyret and Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud
2. Ambivalent Identities and Liminal Spaces: Reconfiguration of National and Diasporic Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Quratulain Shirazi
3. The Twice-displaced: Mapping Alternative Diasporic Identities in Works by Ananda Devi and Nathacha Appanah
Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
4. Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru
Sukanya Gupta
5. Delusion and Defeat in the Short-story Sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
6. Scrutinising the Past: A Review of Socio‐literary Narratives of the East African Asian Diasporic Experience
Mala Pandurang
7. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location in the Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
Amit Sarwal
8. Re-imagining the Komagata Maru incident: Canadian history through Fiction and Film
Ragini Chakraborty
9. Multi-dimensional Perspectives of South Indian Coolie Life in Selected Memoirs by the European Plantocracy of Colonial Malaya
Shanthini Pillai
Biography
Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include international migration, South Asian diaspora, and transnationalism. He is the editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis).
