Upstone, Sara.

British Asian fiction Twenty-first-century voices. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719078323; 9780719078323; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul; 2 Hanif Kureishi; 3 Ravinder Randhawa; 4 Atima Srivastava; 5 Nadeem Aslam; 6 Meera Syal; 7 Hari Kunzru; 8 Monica Ali; 9 Suhayl Saadi; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this?new? generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the.



9781847793539


English fiction--South Asian authors--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PR6114 / .B758 2010