Unit 1
Recent Perspectives on Diasporic Writing
· The Indian Writers of Diaspora
Unit 2
The Diasporic Imagination : Transculturation
Unit 3
The Diasporic Location and Identity: Home and Belonging
Unit 4
A Study of Chitra Banerjee’s The Mistress of Spices
Unit5
A Study of Sunetra Gupta’s So Good in Black
Reading List :
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.
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/diasporic-concerns-selected-novels-chitra-banerjee-divakaruni-and-sunetra-gupta-2
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2018-2019