Diasporic Writing from the Subcontinent : Selected Novels of Monica Ali and Kamila Shamsie

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (a) - Option 5

Unit 1

Recent Perspectives on Diasporic Writing

Unit 2

The Diasporic Imagination : Transculturation

Unit 3

The Diasporic Location and Identity: Home and Belonging 

Unit 4

Diasporas in Flux in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) 

Unit5 

Multiple Identities in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron (2000)

Source Books: 

Reading List :

Boehmer, Elleke. “Introduction.” Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Print.

Brah, Avatar. “Cartographies of Diaspora : Contesting Identities”. Review by  Parita Mukta. Feminist Review No. 63, Negotiations and Resistances (Autumn, 1999), pp. 108-110. Print. 

Jayaram, Narayana. The Indian Diaspora : Dynamics of Migration. New Delhi : Sage, 2004. Print.

Mishra, Sudesh. “From Sugar to Masala: Writing by the Indian Diaspora” from An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, Ed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003. Print.

Paranjape, Makarand. “Triple Ambivalence: Australia, Canada, and South Asia in the Diasporic Imagination” from Journal of the Department of English, Volume XXXII, Numbers 1 & 2, Eds. Sanjukta Dasgupta and Jharna Sanyal, Kolkata: Calcutta University, 2005-2006. Print.

Rushdie, Salman. “Imaginary Homelands” from Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981 - 1991, London: Granta Books, 1991. Print.

Said, Edward W. “Reflections of an Exile.” Biblio: A Review of Books, Volume IV, Number 11 & 12. Ed. Arvind N. Das. New Delhi: Brinda Datta, Nov-Dec 1999. Print.

Simpson, John (ed.). “Introduction”. The Oxford Book of Exile. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Print.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019