Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Womens Narratives: Alien Domiciles

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The South Asian womens 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.

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Ambitious in its scope, Shilpa Daithota Bhat's Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women's Narratives, examines notions of homing, domicile, and alienness in South Asian women's narratives. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Individual essays can also be incorporated in postgraduate coursework.

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Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India.