South Asian writers in twentieth-century Britain : culture in translation /
This book considers the work of South Asian writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain. Comparing the work of different generations, it shows how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed signif...
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Oxford ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Shifting Conditions: The Changing Markets for South Asian Writing in Britain during the Twentieth Century; 2. Self-translation as Self-promotion: I: Nirad C. Chaudhuri; 2. Self-translation as Self-promotion: II: M.J. Tambimuttu; 3. Assimilation and Resistance: Kamala Markandaya and A. Sivanandan; 4. Writing Back, Re-writing Britain: Farrukh Dhondy and Salman Rushdie; 5. Staging Cultural Difference: Cultural Translation and the Politics of Representation: Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.