Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature

EDITORS

MAIASHRI LAL
SuKRiTAPAUL KUMAR

PEARSON
longman
An imprint of Pearson Education
Introduction

Malashri Lal and Sukrita Paul Kumar viii

PART I PARTITION: QUESTIONING BORDERS

1. Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition,Women

and Homelessness 3
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

2. Adarsh agar Diyaan Gallaan: At Home in a Resettlement Colony 16

Anjali Gera Roy

3. Translating India as the Other; Partition and After 34

Sukrita Paul Kumar

PART II H O M E AS SOCIAL TEXT

4. At Home in the Nation? Negotiating Identity in Syam Selvadurai 's

Funny Boy 45
Sharanya Jayawickrama

5. Subsuming the 'Nation' Within ' H o m e : . A Study ofA.K.Ramanujan 's

Poetry 61
Niranjan Mohanty

6. Locating 'Home' in a limmal space: longing and Belonging in the

Fiction of 'Bengali' American Women Writers 75
Sanjukta Dasgupta

PART III LANGUAGE: WRITING THE DIFFERENCE

7. 'Mouthwork*: Food and Language as the Coproreal Home for the

Unhoused Diasporic Body in South Asian Women's Writing 99
Sneja Gunew
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8. The Colonial and Postcolonial Experience of' Home' in Two

Sri Lankan Works HO
Charles Sarvan

9. 'Will the Real South Asian Stand Up Please?'Transference

and the Writing of' Home' in the Psychobab(el) of Diaspora 119
Mridula Nath Chakraborty

PART IV GENDER

10. Not a Home: Hindi Women Poets Narrating 'Home' 145

Lucy Rosenstein

11. The Kaliyug of Modernity in Surendra Verma's 159

Draupadi
Pamela Lothspeich

12. No Nation Woman: The Diasporic Woman's Quest for Home 168
Bidisha Banerjee

PART V FAMILY /MEMORY

13. The Construction of Home in the Amar Singh Diary: Liminality,

Hybridity and Reflexivity 183
Lloyd L Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

14. Home in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra and Sujata Bhatt:

Childhood, Family, Ancestors and Personal History 193
Syamala Kallury and Anjana Neira Dev

15. 'Home' and the Construction of New English Fiction 209

Pradyumna S. Chauhan

16. Modernity at Home: The Nationalization of the Indian Drawing Room,

1830-1930 221

Rosinka Chaudhuri

PART VI IDENTITY AND NATION

17. On the Becoming and Existence of Home: Inequities, Disparities

and the Novel in India 241
Vibha S. Chauhan
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18. Complexities of Home and Homeland in Pakistani English Poetry 256

and Fiction
Muneeza Shamsie

About the Editors and Contributors 269

Index 273