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Diaspora and Migration Interrogating Homeland and Identity in a World of Precarity

Diaspora and Migration Interrogating Homeland and Identity in a World of Precarity

$53
Author:Edited by Pradipta Mukherjee
ISBN 13:9789382178439
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2024
Pages:xx+224pp.,
Published On:28th August 2024
Subject:Language and literature

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CONTENTS: Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Recreating the Sense of 'Ur' (Home) in Singapore: Tales from the Diasporic Sri Lankan Tamil Women-Diotima Chattoraj, 2. In(habiting) No Man's Land: Migrant-memoirs in verse as Meta-testimonies olf Displacement-Rumpa Das, 3. "Home" as a Discursive Space and Contested Domain: South Asian Diasporic Literature, Cinema and Beyond-Pradipta Mukherjee, 4. 'Calcutta is Our Jerusalem' War, Exile and Nolstalgia in Bem Le Hunte's There, Where the Pepper Grows-Hem Raj Bansal, 5. Gender and Identity in Indian Women's Blog Writing: The Landscape of Digital Diaspora-Baishali Mitra and B Gopal Rao, 6. Existential Discourse and a Writer's Intimacy with Language, Translation and Transformation in Select Non-Fictional Texts of Jhumpa Lahiri-Angshuman Mukhopadhyay, 7. Naxalism and the Structures of Haunting in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland-Avirup Ghosh, 8. Defeating Dislocation: Studying Commoner's Agency at Transcending Omnipotence of Partition and Its Historiography in Select Texts from This Side, That Side-Anirban Guha Thakurta, 9. Diaspora and Bollywood: Establishing or Distorting Cultural Identity?-Kushal Nandi, 10. "(A) Brown Guy Making Black Music for a White Audience": Arjun, "Run Away," and his Diasporic Music-Niladri R Chatterjee, 11. Mediating Migration Through Signification: A Reading of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano-Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury, 12. A Story of Diasporic Distress and Menace of Migration: Maryse Conde's Segu-Somshankar Ray, 13. Beyond Borders: Exploring Displacement and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland-Sreenu Mote and G Anitha, 14. Redefining Transnationalism in African-American Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Black Women Novelists of the Twentieth Century-Sourav Singha, 15. Interview-New Migrant Identities, Contests & Contexts: Mona Dash in Conversation with Debasish Lahiri, 16. Two Poems-Rupam Baoni, 17. A Study of Human Displacement: A Surgical Evalution, Your Body was my Home, Notes on Contributors.