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Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and
Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's
provocative and popular fiction. In their engaging and
comprehensive introduction, editors Amritjit Singh and Robin Field
explore how Divakaruni's short stories and novels have been shaped
by her own struggles as a new immigrant and by the influences she
imbibed from academic mentors and feminist writers of color. Twelve
critical essays by both aspiring and experienced scholars explore
Divakaruni's aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness as she
links generations, races, ethnicities, and nations in her
depictions of the diversity of religious and ethnic affiliations
within the Indian diaspora. The editors offer a range of critical
perspectives on Divakaruni's growth as a novelist of historical,
mythic, and political motifs. The volume includes two extended
interviews with Divakaruni, offering insights into her personal
inspirations and social concerns, while also revealing her deep
affection for South Asian communities, as well as an essay by
Divakaruni herself-a candid expression of her artistic independence
in response to the didactic expectations of her many South Asian
readers.
Transforming Diaspora brings together an eclectic collection of
essays that challenges traditional understandings of the diasporic
condition. Most studies of diaspora privilege place, thus creating
a binary between homeland and hostland. This book argues that the
emerging forces of transnationalism and globalization have rendered
such a division obsolete. Rather, the editors posit
transnationalism and globalization to be fundamental
characteristics of contemporary diasporic communities. Exploring
the effects of the present historical moment on diaspora, the
essays examine the changes in the relationships between diasporas,
homelands, and hostlands. The collection is divided into two broad
categories. The first section offers reinterpretations of the
fundamental understandings of diaspora. The second section explores
the complex relationship between the theoretical concept of
diaspora and the realities of daily life for diasporic citizens.
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original,
interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African
American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian
studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from
around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of
"border crossings" and represent important contributions to the
discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration,
exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of
nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these
contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies
and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers
sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and
celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher,
mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
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