Description
| Product ID: | 9781032420486 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
| Title: | Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Knor |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Regional / International studies, History, Cultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Regional geography, Regional studies, Humanities, Cultural studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Regional geography, Asia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic novels and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies, arguing that discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-30 |
