A01=Amitava Kumar
Author_Amitava Kumar
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Chandragupta II
Chopin
CIO
cultural displacement
Dean Mahomed
diaspora studies
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films
Ford Foundation Program
Fundamental Research
Gibreel Farishta
hanif
Hanif Kureishi
hindi
Hindi Films
Holy Man
immigrant narratives
indian
Indian diaspora literary analysis
Kahlil Gibran
Komagata Maru
kureishi
Laloo Yadav
literary criticism
memory and nostalgia
mishra
Month's Labor
Month’s Labor
Mr Biswas
Mystic Masseur
Nayantara Sahgal
pankaj
Patna College
postcolonial identity
rushdie
Sajjad Zaheer
salman
Satpal Ram
Seepersad Naipaul
Small Town India
South Asian Women's Group
writing
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415942102
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages. BR>There is no beginning that is a blank page, writes Kumar. Circling the three capitals of the Indian diaspora, Bombay-London-New York captures the contours of the expatriate experience, touching on the themes of abandonment, nostalgia, and exile that have powered some of the most prominent Indian writers today -- Naipaul, Rushdie, Roy, Kureishi, as well as E.M. Forster and Gandhi. BR>With resonant, poetic language and a storyteller's sensibility, Kumar explores the works of these writers through the lens of his own life as an immigrant and writer. As their fiction reveals, the past of the expatriate is mythical,shaped by memory and loss. BR>With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, passionate search to find one's own story in the stories of others.
Amitava Kumar is Associate Professor of English at Penn State and the author of Passport Photos. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, and the New Statesman, among others. He is the winner of the Asian Age Award for short fiction.He aslo wrote the script and narrated the prize-wining documentary film Pure Chutney.
