Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature (Options for Teaching)

Iyer, Nalini (EDT)/ Rastogi, Pallavi (EDT)

Modern Language Association of America（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781603296373
• DDC分類 820.9954

Full Description

Essays on teaching anglophone literature of the South Asian diaspora from around the world

Migration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are diasporic communities around the world. The identities of South Asians in the diaspora are informed by roots in the subcontinent and the complex experiences of race, religion, nation, class, caste, gender, sexuality, language, trauma, and geography. The literature that arises from these roots and experiences is diverse, powerful, and urgent.

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature embraces an intersectionality that attends to the historical and material conditions of cultural production, the institutional contexts of pedagogy, and the subject positions of teachers and students. Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South Asian diasporic consciousness, the volume also provokes meaningful reflection on other literatures in an age of increasing migration and diaspora.

This book also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Monica Ali, Brick Lane; Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil; Bhira Backhaus, Under the Lemon Trees; Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture; Sharon Bala, The Boat People; Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge; Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land and The Great Derangement; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You; Rupi Kaur, Home Body; Jhumpa Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter" and Unaccustomed Earth; Deepa Mehta, Earth; Johny Miranda, Jeevichirikkunnavarkku Vendiyulla Oppees: Requiem for the Living; Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night; Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine; V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas; Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost; Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways; Sara Suleri, Meatless Days; Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy; Ryhaan Shah, A Silent Life; Narmala Shewcharan, Tomorrow Is Another Day; Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India; Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight; M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction: Histories and Contexts
Toward a Pedagogy of South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi
South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Writing: Histories and Geographies of Dispersion, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi
Part II: East Meets South: Africa and the Caribbean
M. G. Vassanji's Fiction in a Transnational, Postcolonial, and Social Justice Context, by Asma Sayed
Indianness in the Caribbean: Strategies for Teaching Indo-Caribbean Anglophone Literature, by Anita Baksh
Faulty Stereotypes: Indo-Caribbean Literature and a Pedagogy of Social Justice, by Mayuri Deka
History, Historiography, Ethnography, and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, by Dharitri Bhattacharjee
Goa on the Literary Atlas: Questioning Belonging, by R. Benedito Ferrão
Part III: East Meets West: Post-World War II Britain
We Are Not All Migrants: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways, by Alpana Sharma
Cosmopolitanism and Crisis in South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Novels, by C. S. Bhagya
Teaching the Cousinship of Experience: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman across Time and Cultures, by Feroza Jussawalla
Part IV: East Meets North: The United States and Canada
Remembering as Learning: South Asian Histories in a Canadian Classroom, by Chandrima Chakraborty
"Watch Me Reposition" Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, by Robin E. Field
Race, Citizenship, and Community Formation in Bhira Backhaus's Under the Lemon Trees and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, by Rajender Kaur
Teaching Nepali Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Esther Daimari
Part V: East Meets North: The Sri Lankan Refugee Diaspora
Reimagining the Refugee Crisis through Sharon Bala's The Boat People, by Umme Al-wazedi
Teaching Sri Lankan American Literature in the American South, by Dinidu Karunanayake
Navigating the Homeland/Hostland Dynamic: Sri Lankan Diasporic Literature, by Maryse Jayasuriya
Teaching Sri Lanka in the United States: Human Rights in the Literary and Visual Imaginations, by Manav Ratti
Part VI: East Meets North: The Pakistani American Diaspora after 9/11
Teaching Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Mushtaq Bilal
Recontextualizing the Global Diaspora: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, by Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay
Resisting Racialization: Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Ethnic Studies Courses, by Binod Paudyal
Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature in Writing-Intensive Seminars, by Suhaan Kiran Mehta
Part VII: The Forms of Diaspora: Nonfiction, Film, Television, Digital and Creative Writing
Teaching Memoirs: Nonfiction as Public Discourse in South Asian Diasporas, by Subhalakshmi Gooptu
Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement, Close Reading, and Moments of Recognition, by Matthew Spencer
Joke's on Us: Indian Americans, Comedy, and Writing America, by Madhurima Chakraborty
Extimate Pedagogies, Intimate Texts: Teaching Digital South Asian Diasporas, by Robyn Caruthers and Asha Vardharajan
"A Temporary Matter": Jhumpa Lahiri and Creative Writing Pedagogy, by Amina Gautier
Recovering the Gendered Violence and Trauma of Partition in the Me Too Era, by Nidhi Shrivastava
Notes on Contributors