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British Asian fiction
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 diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns.
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Researching and representing mobilities : transdisciplinary encounters
\"In an arguably increasingly mobile world, mobilities are represented in society in many ways. There is a growing awareness that these representations not only help us understand the complexities of social relations in space but also produce society and space. There is also an increased interest in the adoption of research methodologies that are distinctly mobile. Simultaneously, the contested nature of representation is reflected in current discussions around the capacity for the practices of the mobile and sensuous body to be represented, as some movements are considered non-representable.This book engages with these debates, and, by exploring representations of mobilities in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and in research, it examines the methodological potential of representations and the ways in which they co-produce mobilities\"-- Provided by publisher.
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British Asian fiction
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 diversity of contemporary British Asian experience, the book engages with themes including gender, national and religious identity, the reality of post-9/11 Britain, the post-ethnic self, urban belonging, generational difference and youth identities, as well as indicating how these writers manipulate genre and the novel form in support of their thematic concerns.
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Postmodern literature and race
\"Postmodern Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Grey, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond the Bedroom: Motherhood in E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy
In the media storm surrounding E. L. James's bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy a substantial number of feminist scholars and commentators have vociferously attacked the books in reviews, newspaper articles, and blogs and on social media. Such criticisms represent Fifty Shades as a dangerous extension of the conservative ideologies of romance literature but with a more horrifying distinction in their encouragement of sexual violence. In this regard, Fifty Shades has been viewed in the same vein as other works of erotic fiction, which for some feminist commentators are depicted as potentially liberating in the representation of active female sexuality, yet at the same time repressive in the perpetuation of romance ideologies and normative gender roles. In these terms, what will define the books' impact is very much a matter of reception and reader response; it is equally possible that the sexual relationships James offers her readers can simultaneously reinforce sexual violence and promote women's sexual freedom and liberation.
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Domesticity in Magical-Realist Postcolonial Fiction: Reversals of Representation in Salman Rushdie's \Midnight's Children\
Anne McClintock's assertion that imperialism cannot be understood without a theory of domestic space illustrates contemporary critical awareness that colonialism cannot be considered only in terms of public structures, such as the nation or city, but must also be debated in terms of its construction through the private lives of both colonizer and colonized.1 Against the anthropological tradition's repetition of the patriarchal division of public and private spheres-treating the house as a self-contained world, the globe split between an inside of emotional dialogues and an outside of political negotiations, intimacy and exposure, of private life and public space-colonial discourse analysis focuses frequently on the home as a site of power contestation.2 [ C] onnected to, and perhaps stemming from, the principles of spatiality, as Bill Ashcroft has noted, ... the idea of enclosure, or property, has dominated colonizers' views of place3 Postcolonial critics connect the home to political struggle: a site of resistance with a radical political dimension. COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL DOMESTICITY In colonial discourse, the home can be seen as a structure both prominent and overlooked: prominent because of ideological investment in the home in both fiction and nonfiction that, at the height of colonialism, saw it take a central place in political and literary discourse; overlooked precisely because of the motivation behind this prevalence, meaning the house never really represented what it was but rather acted metaphorically for the colonial project itself-an exemplification of Homi Bhabha's argument that the nation is maintained by metaphorical and metonymie strategies.6 Such function is supported by Alison Blunt, for whom domestic imagery was a crucial factor in encouraging support for action against Indian mutiny where the domestic images of'houses,''wardrobes' and 'cravats' appear to stand for British rule in India.
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Postcolonial Spaces
With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.
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The History House: The Magic of Contained Space in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
To me the god of small things is the inversion of God. God’s a big thing
and God’s in control. The god of small things [ . . . ] whether it’s the
way the children see things or whether it’s the insect life in the book,
or the fi sh or the stars-there is a not accepting of what we think of as
adult boundaries. This small activity that goes on is the under life of
the book. All sorts of boundaries are transgressed upon. At the end of
the fi rst chapter I say little events and ordinary things are just smashed
and reconstituted, imbued with new meaning to become the bleached
bones of the story. It’s a story that examines things very closely but also
from a very, very distant point, almost from geological time and you
look at it and see a pattern there. A pattern [ . . . ] of how in these small
events and in these small lives the world intrudes. And because of this,
because of people being unprotected, the world and the social machine
intrudes into the smallest, deepest core of their being and changes their
life. (WordsWorth Interview)1Roy has been accused of apoliticism at times, writing “another narrative of postmodern immorality, perversity and irresponsibility” (Kumar
17).2 Yet, what her answer illustrates is something very different: not a
rejection of considerating of larger political issues, but rather a situation of
these debates on the small scale. Such an approach, rather than diluting the
political elements of the text, may in fact be seen to concentrate them, as
they are seen to penetrate into the very heart of the lives of the individuals
that Roy presents to us; as small things are “imbued with new meaning,”
they provide a perfect example of Bhabha’s advocating of “a shift of attention from the political as a pedagogical, ideological practice to politics as
the stressed necessity of everyday life-politics as a performativity” (15).3
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