Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain by Susheila Nasta

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain by Susheila Nasta

This text seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the World War II, and locates their work within an historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations.

'It is solid, well argued, filled with ideas and insights, and the product of many years of research' - Bruce King, World Literature Today 'A long overdue survey of the wealth of British Asian diaspora writing, which not only identifies the main trends in such writing, but also looks closely at the work of a broad range of major and less well-known figures.' - John Thieme, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 'As a complex critical engagement with important - famous and neglected - texts of the South Asian diaspora in Britain, Home Truths remains an immensely enabling study and one that can be recommended wholeheartedly to students and teachers.' - Tabish Khair, Wasasfiri 'Nasta's ability to explicate different positions within the literary aesthetics of South-Asian diaspora writing in Britain as a whole, makes her book particularly valuable for postgraduate researchers and teachers of South-Asian literature. It provides a lucid, practical overview of a subject that resists simple definitions and is, by its very nature, 'discontinuous and frequently involve[s] a doubling of vision' and 'accountable to more than one location'.' - Modernism and Modernity, Alex Tickell

SUSHEILA NASTA is Research Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. She is also Associate Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, and Editor of Wasafiri.

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ISBN 13	9780333670064
ISBN 10	033367006X
Title	Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain
Author	Susheila Nasta
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2001-11-29
Number of pages	320
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