By Ruth Maxey

A significant interpretation of modern South Asian diasporic writing and cinema in in particular transatlantic terms

Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and no more recognized South Asian American and British Asian texts and key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic traits of the works, pertaining to them to gender politics, undefined, and problems with literary worth and historic switch. whereas attractive with verified debates, Maxey additionally intervenes in new methods in transatlantic, postcolonial literary, and Asian American cultural experiences.

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* appears to be like at writers together with Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, and Nadeem Aslam
* Explores motion pictures resembling Mischief Night, Mississippi Masala, A Love ideally suited, and Praying with Anger
* assets used contain articles from mainstream American, Asian and British newspapers corresponding to The big apple Times, The Washington Post, The Hindu, New Statesman, The day-by-day Telegraph, and The Guardian
* Engages with critics together with Susan Koshy, Sukhdev Sandhu, Rajini Srikanth, and James Procter
* The publication is organised round the 4 key issues of: domestic & kingdom, shuttle & go back, racial blending, and nutrients & eating.

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