World Next Door : South Asian American Literature Paperback / softback
by Rajini Srikanth
Part of the Asian American History & Cultu series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book grows out of the question, \u0022At this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies, what insights can South Asian American writing offer us about living in the world?\u0022 South Asian American literature, with its focus on the multiple geographies and histories of the global dispersal of South Asians, pulls back from a close-up view of the United States to reveal a wider landscape of many nations and peoples.
South Asian American poets, novelists, and playwrights depict the nation as simultaneously discrete and entwined with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad.
Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, Martha Nussbaum, Bruce Robbins, and Amartya Sen, this book exhorts North American residents to envision connectedness with inhabitants of other lands.
The world out there arrives next door.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:26/09/2005
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- ISBN:9781592130818
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:26/09/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781592130818
