Description
Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.
Author: Sarah Knor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/30/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781032420486
ISBN10: 1032420480
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Women
- Literary Criticism | Asian | Indic
- Social Science | Women's Studies
About the Author
Dr. Sarah Knor is a lecturer and researcher in English literature, specialising in postcolonial and diasporic writing. She studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Her doctoral project was part of the international Marie Curie initial training network on "Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging" (Cohab) involving the universities of Münster, Oxford, SOAS, Mumbai, Stockholm and Northampton.
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