Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Indian & South Asian American Studies, Asian Studies - South Asia - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Asian Literature - Literary Criticism, Society & Culture in Literature, Asia - Civilization

Between the Lines

Name: Between the Lines
Author: Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva
ISBN: 9781566394680

by Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva

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Overview

This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live "between the lines"-on and between borders-they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the interaction of the personal "I," the collective "we," and the world beyond.

The South Asian scholars gathered together in this volume speak from a variety of theoretical perspectives; in the essays and interviews that cross the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines, they engage in intense, sometimes contentious, debate.