In this Book
- Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Temple University Press
- Series: Asian American History and Culture (AAHC)
This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live "between the lines"—on and between borders—they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the interaction of the personal "I," the collective "we," and the world beyond.
The South Asian scholars gathered together in this volume speak from a variety of theoretical perspectives; in the essays and interviews that cross the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines, they engage in intense, sometimes contentious, debate.
Contributors: Meena Alexander, Gauri Viswanathan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Amritjit Singh, M. G. Vassanji, Sohail Inayatullah, Ranita Chatterjee, Benita Mehta, Sanjoy Majumder, Mahasveta Barua, Sukeshi Kamra, Samir Dayal, Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Indrani Mitra, Huma Ibrahim, Amitava Kumar, Shantanu DuttaAhmed, Uma Parameswaran.
In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-32
- PART I: INTERVIEWS
- PART II: COMMENTARIES
- 5. African Americans and the New Immigrants
- pp. 106-123
- 8. Coming to Terms with the “Postcolonial”
- pp. 137-164
- PART III: STUDIES IN THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
- PART IV: LITERARY CRITICISM
- PART V: EXPERIMENTAL CRITIQUES
- 18. Jane Austen in Meerut, India
- pp. 315-336
- 20. I See the Glass as Half Full
- pp. 351-368
- About the Contributors
- pp. 369-372
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