Lexington Books Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Womens Narratives: Alien Domiciles

Product Description The South Asian women's diaspora engages in spatio-temporal interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives, articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places, triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of individual and group histories, personal and collective experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in various narratives? What are the themes/issues they select to portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives depicting South Asian women, their complexly positioned voices, gesturing at the proliferating challenges and reflecting the grim realities of a globalized world. Review For an anthropologist, these original and insightful essays on diasporic novels, music, and performance in the South Asian diaspora open up fascinating old-new questions about the subtleties and ironies of seemingly intractable crucibles surrounding women and home(ing): of hyphenated identities, fluid sexualities, transnational living and the ambivalences of belonging.--Pnina Werbner, Professor Emerita, Keele University About the Author Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India.