Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Migrant voices in literatures in English Sheobhushan Shukla/Anu Shukla. 2. Dialogues of belonging: black and Asian British women's Diasporan writing/Gina Wisker. 3. Migrancy across the centuries: Coetzee rewriting Defoe/Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo. 4. Contemporary British black and South Asian writing/Chris Weedon. 5. Deceit, disappointments and desperation: Adbulrazak Gurnah's view of Migrancy/Felicity Hand. 6. The Metropolis as Stepmother: Jean Rhys's experience of diaspora/Barbara Arizti. 7. So different but so similar! Janette Turner hospital's Due Preparations for the Plague/Dolores Herrero. 8. Bollywood Galore and the Expatriate text: disarranged marriages and the impossible return of the native/Alessandro Monti. 9. Migrancy in literature/Nirmal Selvamony. 10. Movements and migrations: tales from the third space/M.G. Hegde. 11. Migrants' perception of the Mandalic patterns: a comparative study/K.T. Sunitha Byrappa. 12. The Hymns of national strife: the Enigma of nation in the diasporic writings of Satendra Nandan/M.S. Pandey. 13. The world of Saul bellow/Anu Shukla. 14. Re-presenting third world women: a study of select writings of Imtiaz Dharker, Debjani Chatterjee and Suniti Namjoshi/Madhurita Choudhury. Index.
"Migrant Voices in Literatures in English interrogates migrancy in literature and literary discourse especially in narratives and poetics. It endeavours to tease out the tangled yarn of Migrancy and Dispora and deeply probe various formulations arising from migrant consciousness and creativity, viz, home/land, cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism, borders, quest for identity, ethnicity, language and so on. Quite a few illustrious scholars and critics, from across the world, engage in this volume with the works/texts of the icons of migrant literature from various countries with a select emphasis of Indian writers in English. The book is intended to serve all those, whether academics, creative writers or researchers, who are interface with a most flourishing genealogy of contemporary world literature, and to lead to true literary globalisation." (jacket)
