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    Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature

    EDITORS

    MAIASHRI LAL
    SuKRiTAPAUL KUMAR

    PEARSON
    longman
    An imprint of Pearson Education
    Introduction

    Malashri Lal and Sukrita Paul Kumar viii

    PART I PARTITION: QUESTIONING BORDERS

    1. Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition,Women


    and Homelessness 3
    Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

    2. Adarsh agar Diyaan Gallaan: At Home in a Resettlement Colony 16


    Anjali Gera Roy

    3. Translating India as the Other; Partition and After 34

    Sukrita Paul Kumar

    PART II H O M E AS SOCIAL TEXT

    4. At Home in the Nation? Negotiating Identity in Syam Selvadurai 's


    Funny Boy 45
    Sharanya Jayawickrama

    5. Subsuming the 'Nation' Within ' H o m e : . A Study ofA.K.Ramanujan 's


    Poetry 61
    Niranjan Mohanty

    6. Locating 'Home' in a limmal space: longing and Belonging in the


    Fiction of 'Bengali' American Women Writers 75
    Sanjukta Dasgupta

    PART III LANGUAGE: WRITING THE DIFFERENCE

    7. 'Mouthwork*: Food and Language as the Coproreal Home for the


    Unhoused Diasporic Body in South Asian Women's Writing 99
    Sneja Gunew
    Vi INTERPRETING HOMES

    8. The Colonial and Postcolonial Experience of' Home' in Two


    Sri Lankan Works HO
    Charles Sarvan

    9. 'Will the Real South Asian Stand Up Please?'Transference


    and the Writing of' Home' in the Psychobab(el) of Diaspora 119
    Mridula Nath Chakraborty

    PART IV GENDER

    10. Not a Home: Hindi Women Poets Narrating 'Home' 145


    Lucy Rosenstein

    11. The Kaliyug of Modernity in Surendra Verma's 159


    Draupadi
    Pamela Lothspeich

    12. No Nation Woman: The Diasporic Woman's Quest for Home 168
    Bidisha Banerjee

    PART V FAMILY /MEMORY

    13. The Construction of Home in the Amar Singh Diary: Liminality,


    Hybridity and Reflexivity 183
    Lloyd L Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

    14. Home in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra and Sujata Bhatt:


    Childhood, Family, Ancestors and Personal History 193
    Syamala Kallury and Anjana Neira Dev

    15. 'Home' and the Construction of New English Fiction 209


    Pradyumna S. Chauhan

    16. Modernity at Home: The Nationalization of the Indian Drawing Room,


    1830-1930 221

    Rosinka Chaudhuri

    PART VI IDENTITY AND NATION

    17. On the Becoming and Existence of Home: Inequities, Disparities


    and the Novel in India 241
    Vibha S. Chauhan
    CONTENTS vii

    18. Complexities of Home and Homeland in Pakistani English Poetry 256


    and Fiction
    Muneeza Shamsie

    About the Editors and Contributors 269


    Index 273

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