The English language poetry of South Asians : a critical study /

Transnational poetics are studied by grouping poets flexibly according to regions, time periods, literary movements, and poetic methodology. Poetry analysis covers the relevance of historical allusions as well as underlying concerns of gender, ethnicity, and class. Comparisons are offered between po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Mitali P., 1954-
Other Authors: Hassan, Syed Khwaja Moinul, Moinul Hassan, Syed Khwaja
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Company, Inc., Publishers, c2013
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Locating South Asian voices : the transnational case for South Asian poetry in English
  • The beginnings of the English-language poetry of South Asians : the colonial era in the Indian subcontinent
  • Strangers in their own lands : English-language poetry in the Indian subcontinent since 1947
  • Transnationalism and hybridity in contemporary Indian poetry
  • Hybridity and dislocation : poets of the South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia
  • Diaspora, dislocation and South Asian poetry in Canada
  • Strangers in a strange land :South Asian immigrant poets in the United States
  • But here are the meanings : the voices of contemporary South Asian American male poets
  • Other histories : South Asian women poets in North America and the Caribbean
  • Why Im a poet : contemporary South Asian womens poetry in the United States
  • Coda
  • Locating South Asian voices : the transnational case for South Asian poetry in English
  • The beginnings of the English-language poetry of South Asians : the colonial era in the Indian subcontinent
  • Strangers in their own lands : English-language poetry in the Indian subcontinent since 1947
  • Transnationalism and hybridity in contemporary Indian poetry
  • Hybridity and dislocation : poets of the South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia
  • Diaspora, dislocation and South Asian poetry in Canada
  • Strangers in a strange land :South Asian immigrant poets in the United States
  • "But here are the meanings" : the voices of contemporary South Asian American male poets
  • "Other" histories : South Asian women poets in North America and the Caribbean
  • "Why I'm a poet" : contemporary South Asian women's poetry in the United States
  • Coda
  • Locating South Asian voices: the transnational case for South Asian poetry in English
  • The beginnings of the English-language poetry of South Asians: the colonial era in the Indian subcontinent
  • Strangers in their own lands: English-language poetry in the Indian subcontinent since 1947
  • Transnationalism and hybridity in contemporary Indian poetry
  • Hybridity and dislocation: poets of the South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia
  • Diaspora, dislocation and South Asian poetry in Canada
  • Strangers in a strange land:South Asian immigrant poets in the United States
  • "But here are the meanings": the voices of contemporary South Asian American male poets
  • "Other" histories: South Asian women poets in North America and the Caribbean
  • "Why I'm a poet": contemporary South Asian women's poetry in the United States