Passage to Globalism : Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain.
Title:
Passage to Globalism : Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain.
Author:
Roy, Bidhan Chandra.
ISBN:
9781453909881
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (219 pages)
Series:
South Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Framing South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain's New Global Context 1 -- Theoretical Frameworks 4 -- The Significance of Globalization Theory for Reading South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain 10 -- Reading South Asian Diasporic Fiction, Reading Globalization 14 -- 1. Remapping National Borders of Identity 25 -- Introduction 25 -- Two Theoretical Models of the Effects of Globalization on National Identity 26 -- The Local-Global Dialectics of Britishness: Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette 32 -- Englistan: The Global Histories of Britishness in Ravinder Randhawa's The Coral Strand 40 -- Pop Goes the Nation: Imagining the Postnational in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet 47 -- Conclusion 55 -- 2. Imagining a World of Inequality 63 -- Introduction 63 -- Theorizing the Effects of Globalization upon Class Identities 65 -- The Two Worlds of V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds 74 -- "The whole situation was very old economy:" Hari Kunzru's Transmission 84 -- The Underground of the Global City: Manzu Islam's Burrow 93 -- Conclusion 100 -- 3. The New Ummah 109 -- Introduction 109 -- Two Theoretical Explanations of the Effects of Globalization on Muslim Identity 110 -- Translating Islam: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 116 -- Defending The Satanic Verses Through Fiction: Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album 125 -- In Search of a Moderate Muslim: Monica Ali's Brick Lane 134 -- Conclusion 142 -- 4. Gendering the World 153 -- Introduction 153 -- Two Theoretical Explanations of the Effects of Globalization upon Gender Identities 154 -- The Multidimensionality of Gender: Farhana Sheikh's The Red Box 161 -- "Modern Aunties" and "Marketable Asian Babes": Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee 169 -- "The Universal Story of Human Hope": Nadeem Aslam's Maps For Lost Lovers 176 -- Conclusion 184.
Conclusion: Conflicted Identities and New Directions 191 -- Bibliography 199 -- Index 207.
Abstract:
As the history of British colonialism recedes and a new phase of global integration intensifies, the critical tools of postcolonialism become less useful in reading South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain. A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. It examines the politics of representation that are involved in positioning and categorizing South Asian diasporic fiction within such a world and asks questions of who and what are represented and how and to whom in selected works of South Asian diasporic fiction. A secondary aim of A Passage to Globalism addresses how South Asian diasporic fiction might extend and qualify theoretical explanations of globalization. This book asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalization? And how does literary analysis help us understand how stories of globalization are told? Testing and extending the utility of concepts from both Marxist and liberal explanations of globalization in this way, it argues for an integrated theoretical approach to a set of texts that operate at the complex intersection between Britain's colonial past and the complexity of contemporary globality as well as across local, national, and transnational literary contexts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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