Sara Upstone, British Asian Fiction: Twenty-first Century Voices
Sara Upstone’s British Asian Fiction proposes to examine the works of a series of British-born or British-raised authors on the basis of the contention that these writers signal the establishment of a “definitive genre of British Asian writing deserving recognition in its own right” (1). Aware of t...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Summary: | Sara Upstone’s British Asian Fiction proposes to examine the works of a series of British-born or British-raised authors on the basis of the contention that these writers signal the establishment of a “definitive genre of British Asian writing deserving recognition in its own right” (1). Aware of the pitfalls of labelling in a postcolonial context, Upstone proposes a rereading of Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul as “transitional figures in the development of British Asian literature” (17) in... |
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