Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Abstract

Introduction by Emmanuel S. Nelson Girmit Ideology Revisited: Fiji Indian Literature by Vijay Mishra V. S. Naipaul: History as Cosmic Irony by P. S. Chauhan Voice in Exile: Journey in Raja Rao and V. S. Naipaul by K. Chellappan South Asia/North America: New Dwellings and the Past by Craig Tapping Passages from India: Migrating to America in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee by C. L. Chua The Sorrows of a Broken Time: Agha Shahid Ali and the Poetry of Loss and Recovery by Lawrence Needham Still Arriving: Assimilationist Indo-Caribbean Experience of Marginality by Victor Ramraj History and Community Involvement in Indo-Fijian and Indo-Trinidadian Writing by Helen Tiffin Staying Close but Breaking Free: Indian Writers in Singapore by Kirpal Singh Sam Selvon's Tiger: In Search of Self-Awareness by Harold Barratt Indian Writing in East and South Africa: Multiple Approaches to Colonialism and Apartheid by Arlene A. Elder Kamala Markandaya and the Indian Immigrant Experience in Britain by Hena Ahmad Rushdie's Fiction: World Beyond the Looking Glass by Vijay Lakshmi Author(iz)ing Midnight's Children and Shame: Salman Rushdie's Constructions of Authority by Anuradha Dingwaney Selected Bibliography Index