Bapsi Sidhwa, a Parsee (Zoroastrian) writer of Pakistani descent, was born in Karachi, then part of pre-partition India, and all her early fiction is set in Pakistan or India. She immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, and An… Read More ›
Diaspora Criticism
Analysis of Paul Scott’s The Day of the Scorpion
The second volume in The Raj Quartet, this novel resumes the story of Britain’s last days of colonial control over the territory that became India and Pakistan. Where the first volume, The Jewel in the Crown, had opened with a… Read More ›
Analysis of Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River
This experimental novel includes aspects of both realism and antirealism, and it mixes several narrative strands using different strategies and varying the point of view from one section of the novel to another. The novel opens with a kind of… Read More ›
Analysis of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia
A celebration of London’s new multiethnic youth culture, this comic novel relates the adventures of the first-person narrator, Karim Amir, the 17-year-old son of a Muslim Indian businessman, Haroon, and an Englishwoman, Margaret. The family resides in the middle-class suburbs… Read More ›
Analysis of Amy Tan’s Stories
Amy Tan’s (born February 19, 1952) voice is an important one among a group of “hyphenated Americans” (such as African Americans and Asian Americans) who describe the experiences of members of ethnic minority groups. Her short fiction is grounded in… Read More ›
Transnational Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
The collection of human communities united by a desire to work for common political destiny is termed as a nation. Ernest Renan believes that nation is a ‘spiritual principle’ which perpetually affirms a common life (19). The word nation alludes… Read More ›
Diaspora Criticism Literary Theory
In attempting to set itself up as ‘a genre of theoretical writing’ (Frow, 1997, 15), diaspora criticism takes as its object a thing called ‘diaspora’. The viability of the critical genre, it follows, rests on defining and delimiting the object… Read More ›
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