Essays on teaching anglophone literature of the South Asian diaspora from around the world Migration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are diasporic communities around the world. The identities of South Asians in the diaspora are informed by roots in the subcontinent and the complex experiences of race, religion, nation, class, caste, gender, sexuality, language, trauma, and geography. The literature that arises from these roots and experiences is diverse, powerful, and urgent. Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature embraces an intersectionality that attends to the historical and material conditions of cultural production, the institutional contexts of pedagogy, and the subject positions of teachers and students. Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South Asian diasporic consciousness, the volume also provokes meaningful reflection on other literatures in an age of increasing migration and diaspora. This book also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Monica Ali, Brick Lane; Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil; Bhira Backhaus, Under the Lemon Trees; Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture; Sharon Bala, The Boat People; Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge; Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land and The Great Derangement; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You; Rupi Kaur, Home Body; Jhumpa Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter" and Unaccustomed Earth; Deepa Mehta, Earth; Johny Miranda, Jeevichirikkunnavarkku Vendiyulla Oppees: Requiem for the Living; Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night; Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine; V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas; Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost; Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways; Sara Suleri, Meatless Days; Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy; Ryhaan Shah, A Silent Life; Narmala Shewcharan, Tomorrow Is Another Day; Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India; Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight; M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.
Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction: Histories and Contexts Toward a Pedagogy of South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Writing: Histories and Geographies of Dispersion, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi Part II: East Meets South: Africa and the Caribbean M. G. Vassanji's Fiction in a Transnational, Postcolonial, and Social Justice Context, by Asma Sayed Indianness in the Caribbean: Strategies for Teaching Indo-Caribbean Anglophone Literature, by Anita Baksh Faulty Stereotypes: Indo-Caribbean Literature and a Pedagogy of Social Justice, by Mayuri Deka History, Historiography, Ethnography, and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, by Dharitri Bhattacharjee Goa on the Literary Atlas: Questioning Belonging, by R. Benedito Ferrao Part III: East Meets West: Post-World War II Britain We Are Not All Migrants: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways, by Alpana Sharma Cosmopolitanism and Crisis in South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Novels, by C. S. Bhagya Teaching the Cousinship of Experience: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman across Time and Cultures, by Feroza Jussawalla Part IV: East Meets North: The United States and Canada Remembering as Learning: South Asian Histories in a Canadian Classroom, by Chandrima Chakraborty "Watch Me Reposition" Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, by Robin E. Field Race, Citizenship, and Community Formation in Bhira Backhaus's Under the Lemon Trees and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, by Rajender Kaur Teaching Nepali Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Esther Daimari Part V: East Meets North: The Sri Lankan Refugee Diaspora Reimagining the Refugee Crisis through Sharon Bala's The Boat People, by Umme Al-wazedi Teaching Sri Lankan American Literature in the American South, by Dinidu Karunanayake Navigating the Homeland/Hostland Dynamic: Sri Lankan Diasporic Literature, by Maryse Jayasuriya Teaching Sri Lanka in the United States: Human Rights in the Literary and Visual Imaginations, by Manav Ratti Part VI: East Meets North: The Pakistani American Diaspora after 9/11 Teaching Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Mushtaq Bilal Recontextualizing the Global Diaspora: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, by Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay Resisting Racialization: Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Ethnic Studies Courses, by Binod Paudyal Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature in Writing-Intensive Seminars, by Suhaan Kiran Mehta Part VII: The Forms of Diaspora: Nonfiction, Film, Television, Digital and Creative Writing Teaching Memoirs: Nonfiction as Public Discourse in South Asian Diasporas, by Subhalakshmi Gooptu Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement, Close Reading, and Moments of Recognition, by Matthew Spencer Joke's on Us: Indian Americans, Comedy, and Writing America, by Madhurima Chakraborty Extimate Pedagogies, Intimate Texts: Teaching Digital South Asian Diasporas, by Robyn Caruthers and Asha Vardharajan "A Temporary Matter": Jhumpa Lahiri and Creative Writing Pedagogy, by Amina Gautier Recovering the Gendered Violence and Trauma of Partition in the Me Too Era, by Nidhi Shrivastava Notes on Contributors
"An excellent and important addition to the list of MLA teaching volumes. . . . essential reading [for scholars and students in] South Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, world literatures, Anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies and gender studies." -South Asia Research
