Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Partition: Questioning Borders
	Chapter 1: Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition, Women and Homelessness
		The Stories: ‘Lajwanti’, ‘Angapali’, ‘Karunkanya’
		Whose Chastity, Whose Struggle? Women, Nations, Myths
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Adarsh Nagar Diyaan Gallaan: At Home in a Resettlement Colony
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Translating India as the Other: Partition and After
		Notes
		References
Part II: Home as Social Text
	Chapter 4: At Home in the Nation? Negotiating Identity in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy
		Violence and the Unhomely
		A Funny Performance
		Queering Language
		A Language of  ‘Powerful and Hidden Possibilities’
		Negotiating Identity, Imagining Community, Writing Home
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Subsuming the ‘Nation’ Within ‘Home’: A Study of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetry
		Inwardness of the Creative Medium
		References
	Chapter 6: Locating ‘Home’ in a Liminal Space: Longing and Belonging in the Fiction of ‘Bengali’ American Women Writers
		Notes
		References
Part III: Language: Writing the Difference
	Chapter 7: ‘Mouthwork’: Food and Language as the Corporeal Home for the Unhoused Diasporic Body in South Asian Women’s Writing
		The Return of the Mother-tongue: Parole to Langue
		Synaesthesia
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: The Colonial and Postcolonial Experience of ‘Home’ in Two Sri Lankan Works
		References
	Chapter 9: ‘Will the Real South Asian Stand Up Please?’ Transference and the Writing of ‘Home’ in the Psychobab(El) of Diaspora
		To Begin then, at the Beginning
		Transference: Laying the Ground and Booking Passages
		First Set: of Twice-born Fiction
		Second Set: Geographies of Identity
		Is Zadie Smith South Asian?
		Third Set: Voices of the Crossing
		Addendum, Errata, Excess, Abscess
		Of Origins and Returns
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Gender
	Chapter 10: Not a Home: Hindi Women Poets Narrating ‘Home’
		‘Homesick With Nowhere to Go’6
		Home as Confinement
		Home and the Uncanny
		Re-territorializations
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: The Kaliyug of Modernity in Surendra Verma’s Draupadi
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: No Nation Woman: The Diasporic Woman’s Quest for Home
		Recreating Homes in Foreign Spaces: Resistance and Subjectivity
		Notes
		References
Part V: Family/Memory
	Chapter 13: The Construction of Home in the Amar Singh Diary: Liminality, Hybridity and Reflexivity
		Liminality, Hybridity and Home
		The Formation of a Hybrid Identity
		Home and the Public/Private Distinction
		Home as Site of Surveillance
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: Home in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra and Sujata Bhatt: Childhood, Family, Ancestors and Personal History
		Family and Childhood: ‘The Rancid Fat of the Past’1
		Ancestors and Personal History: ‘I Never Left Home’2
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15: ‘Home’ and the Construction of New English Fiction
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16: Modernity at Home: The Nationalization of the Indian Drawing Room, 1830–1930
		The Sitting Rooms of Young Bengal2
		Town and Country: Colonial Modern Aspects
		The Printed Book in the Bhadralok Drawing Room
		The Advent of Women
		The Intellectual Bengali Aesthetic
		Notes
		References
Part VI: Identity and Nation
	Chapter 17: On the Becoming and Existence of Home: Inequities, Disparities and the Novel in India
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: Complexities of Home and Homeland in Pakistani English Poetry and Fiction
		Note
		References
	About the Editors and the Contributors
		The Editors
		The Contributors
Index