Ruvani Ranasinha

South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain

Culture in Translation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the work of South Asian writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain. Comparing the work of different generations, it shows how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly during the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780199207770
• ISBN-10: 0199207771
• Artikelnr.: 22556284

Autorenporträt

Ruvani Ranasinha completed her PhD in South Asian Anglophone Literature at Oxford University and is a Lecturer at Brunel University. She is the author of Hanif Kureishi: Writers and their Work Series and several articles on postcolonial literature, most recently an article on Salman Rushdie in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Rushdie edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 1. Shifting Conditions: The changing markets for South Asian
writing in Britain during the twentieth century
* 2: Self-translation as self-promotion: Nirad C. Chaudhuri and
Tambimuttu
* 3: Assimilation and resistance: Markandaya and Sivanandan
* 4: Writing back, re-writing Britain: Farrukh Dhondy and Salman
Rushdie
* 5: Staging cultural difference: cultural translation and the politics
of representation: Hanif Kureishi and Meera Syal
* Afterword
* Bibliography