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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain - Culture in Translation (Hardcover, New)
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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain - Culture in Translation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first book
to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of
South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based
on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing
houses. This comparison of succeeding generations of writers who
emigrated to, or were born in, Britain examines how the experience
of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary
market place, and the critical reception of them, changed
significantly throughout the twentieth century. Ranasinha shows how
the aesthetic, cultural, and political context changed
significantly for each generation, producing radically different
kinds of writing and transforming the role of the postcolonial
writer of South Asian origin.
The extensive use of original materials from publishers' archives
shows how shifting political, academic, and commercial agendas in
Britain and North America influenced the selection, content,
presentation, and consumption of many of these texts. The
differences between writers of different generations can thus in
part be understood in terms of the different demands of their
publishers and expectations of readers in each decade. Writers from
different generations are paired accordingly in each chapter: Nirad
Chaudhuri (1897-1999) with Tambimuttu (1915-83); Ambalavener
Sivanandan (born 1923) with Kamala Markandaya (born 1924); Salman
Rushdie (born 1947) with Farrukh Dhondy (born 1944); and Hanif
Kureishi (born 1954) with Meera Syal (born 1963). Raja Rao, Mulk
Raj Anand, Attia Hosain, V.S Naipaul, and Aubrey Menen are also
discussed.
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