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Contemporary Diasporic Literature: Writing History, Culture, Self

 
Manjit Inder Singh (Author)
Synopsis Contemporary Diasporic Literature: Writing History, Culture, Self addresses a seminal change that has presided over the late twentieth century literary history.  Conceding that exile, immigration and homelessness are primordial human conditions submitting to a literary/aesthetic resolution or interrogation, this volume underlines their contemporary, centralizing,  homogenizing effect on culture and self on the one hand, and the numerous examples of new and different, often syncretic and hybrid, cultural forms and their iteration on the other.  As several studies by scholars in this volume substantiate, in the diasporic ‘postnational imaginary’ the official and absolutist constructions of ethnic/cultural/ historical are startlingly replaced by dialogic, intercultural, transnational and other media-related 'technologies', al of which move towards interrogative, contested models.  They promise to project how the diaspora-related cultural-economic-political mutations have had a decisive, revisionary impact on the discipline of literary/critical studies.  Among first of its kind of India, the present anthology of critical essays is bound to prove valuable for academics, students and researchers.
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About the author

Manjit Inder Singh

Manjit Inder Singh is Professor and Chairperson in the Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala.  His publications include, V.S. Naipaul and George Lamming: The Poetics of Alienation and Identity, V.S. Naipaul (Diasporic Indian Writers Series), The Post Condition: Theory, Texts and Contexts, and The Critical Space: Studies in Literature, Theory, Nationalism and Diaspora.

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Title Contemporary Diasporic Literature: Writing History, Culture, Self
Format Hardcover
Date published: 31.01.2007
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 818575375X
length 198p., Notes; References; Bibliography; 23cm.