Ain’t I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation? ‘Woman’ and ‘Nation’ in Pre- and Post- Independence India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword from the Editors v
3. Contents vii
4. Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora
5. Introduction: Symbols of Diaspora 3
6. Tied to the Land: A Semiotic Challenging of Terms Concerning Land as Used in Diaspora Discourse 19
7. Diasporic Memory and Narratives of Spatiotemporality 43
8. Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Political Aesthetics of Diasporic Social Spaces in London 59
9. The Symbolism of Emplacement and Displacement in Sudanese British Fiction by Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela 75
10. Ain’t I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation? ‘Woman’ and ‘Nation’ in Pre- and Post- Independence India 93
11. Christmas in the Diaspora: Dislocating Symbols in Kipling, Cary and Dabydeen 111
12. Two Stone Lions: Law, Home, and Diasporic Sovereignty 131
13. Oddity Magnified: In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans 149
14. Writing Her Own Story: Acculturation, Metatextuality and Symbolizing Queerness in Shamim Sarif’s I Can’t Think Straight 163
15. ‘A Bootless Inquisition?’ Searching for Imaginary Homelands in The Tempest 183
16. General Section
17. Discourses of Terror in French and Spanish Novels after 9/11 201
18. William Earle’s Novella: Obi, Obeah and the Ideological Work of Haunting 221
19. A Great Good Place or Ghastly Pile? Representations of the English Country House in Recent British Fiction: Metamorphosis of a Literary Motif 245
20. Book Reviews 273
21. Contributors 285
22. Index 291