"The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorising The Diasporic Imaginary" by Vijay Mishra(pdf)

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"The Literature of the Indian Diaspora" by Vijay Mishra

Contents: 

Prologue: ‘That time is past’ xv

Introduction: The diasporic imaginary 1

1. The girmit ideology 

2. Indenture and diaspora poetics 

3. Traumatic memory, mourning and V. S. Naipaul 

4. Diaspora and the multicultural state 

5. The law of the hyphen and the postcolonial condition 

6. Diasporic narratives of Salman Rushdie 

Epilogue: The subaltern speaks

Part of the syllabus in:

University of Delhi, BA(Hons) English, Semester 5, Literatures of Diaspora, Unit-5 Readings