Kumar Away

The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-77747-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.
Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present, Away contains work by the writers mentioned above, alongside earlier pieces by Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore, and a wide range of writers over the last half-century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Amitava

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

PROLOGUE

NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI
England (from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian)

SALMAN RUSHDIE
Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies (from East, West: Stories)

AMITAV GHOSH
A to Z Street Atlas (from The Shadow Lines)

NISSIM EZEKIEL
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S. (from Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets)

PART I

DEAN MAHOMED
Advertisements in Brighton 1822-38 (from The First Indian Author in English by Michael H. Fisher)

SUNITY DEVEE
My First Visit to England (from The Autobiography of an Indian Princess)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Letters and Notes (from Rabindranath Tagore, An Anthology)

M. K. GANDHI
In England and South Africa (from An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth)

SAROJINI NAIDU
Letters (from Sarojini Naidu: Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s)

SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE
The Sum Total of Good I Can Do (from Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim)

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
In the Modern World (from Before Freedom: Nehru's Letters to his Sister)

MULK RAJ ANAND
Lions and Shadows in the Sherry Party in Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop (from Conversations in Bloomsbury)

QURRATULAIN HYDER
Red Indians in England (from River of Fire)

PART II

R. K. NARAYAN
My America (from Frontline, October 1985)

DOM MORAES
Changes of Scenery (from Voices of the Crossing)

FARRUKH DHONDY
Speaking in Tongues (from Voices of the Crossing)

VED MEHTA
Naturalized Citizen No. 984-5165 (from A Ved Mehta Reader)

A. K. RAMANUJAN
Some Indian Uses of History on a Rainy Day (from Selected Poems)

V. S. NAIPAUL
The Ceremony of Farewell (from The Enigma of Arrival)

SALMAN RUSHDIE
Eating the Eggs of Love (from The Jaguar Smile)

BHARATI MUKHERJEE
Two Ways to Belong to America

HANIF KUREISHI
Wild Women, Wild Men

ABRAHAM VERGHESE
The Cowpath to America

PART III

AMIT CHAUDHURI
Oxford (from Freedom Song: Three Novels)

MEERA SYAL
Indoor Language (from Anita and Me)

MEERA SYAL
Gold Emporium (from Life isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee)

ANURAG MATHUR
The First Letter Home (from Inscrutable Americans)

ANITA DESAI
Vegetarian Summer (from Fasting, Feasting)

AGHA SHAHID ALI
When on Route 80 in Ohio (from A Nostalgist's Map of America)

ROHINTON MISTRY
Swimming Lessons (from Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag)

AMITAV GHOSH
The Imam and I (from In an Antique Land)

AMITAVA KUMAR
Flight (from Bombay-London-New York)

EPILOGUE

PANKAJ MISHRA
There's No Place like Home

Über Autor(innen)

Amitava Kumar was born in Patna, India. He is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. A writer and poet, he is the author, most recently, of Bombay-London-New York, also published by Routledge. He lives in University Park, PA.