An edition of The world next door (2004)

The world next door

South Asian American literature and the idea of America

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An edition of The world next door (2004)

The world next door

South Asian American literature and the idea of America

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"This book grows out of the question, "What is South Asian American writing and what insights can it offer us about living in the world at this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies?" South Asian American literature, with its focus on the multiple geographies and histories of the global dispersal of South Asians, pulls back from a close-up view of the United States to reveal a wider landscape of many nations and peoples. Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, Martha Nussbaum, Bruce Robbins, and Amartya Sen, this book argues that to read the body of South Asian American literature justly, one must engage with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad. Poets, novelists, and playwrights like Indran Amirthanayagam, Meena Alexander, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje, Shani Mootoo, Amitava Kumar, Tahira Naqvi, and Sharbari Ahmed exhort North American residents to envision connectedness with inhabitants of other lands. These writers' significant contribution to American literature and to the American imagination is to depict the nation as simultaneously discrete and entwined within the fold of other nations. The world out there arrives next door."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
296

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The world next door: South Asian American literature and the idea of America
2004, Temple University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.

Published in
Philadelphia
Series
Asian American history and culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/8914
Library of Congress
PS153.S68 S73 2004, PS153.S68S73 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 296 p. ;
Number of pages
296

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3694064M
Internet Archive
worldnextdoorsou0000srik
ISBN 10
1592130801, 159213081X
LCCN
2003070260
OCLC/WorldCat
54046534
Library Thing
5199479
Goodreads
217203
611618

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