Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature - by Kenneth A Loparo (Hardcover)

About the Book

In-depth analyses of writers such as Salman Rushdie, Caryl Phillips, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jhumpa Lahiri, M.G. Vassanji, etc.

Book Synopsis

Contents Introduction Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity Shaky Ground, New Territoralities and the Diasporic Subject Disjunction, Ethics and the Diasporic Subject Language(s) and the Diasporic Subject Notes Bibliography Index

Review Quotes

'This is a work of admirable scope and scholarship: illuminating and thought-provoking, it sets out to address contending issues with an explicit and accessible approach.' - Mariangela Palladino, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

About the Author

FRANÇOISE KRÁL is Senior Lecturer in English at the Université Paris 10, France. She has published widely on postcolonial literature and theory, in particular on the literature of the south Asian diaspora as well as on travel narratives and the representation of historical figures in Australian literature. She is the editor of Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the colonial 'self'/mapping the indigenous 'other' in the literatures of Australia and New Zealand.