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26 - Diasporic Translocations

Many Homes, Multiple Forms

from (I) - Looking Back, Looking Forward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

Susheila Nasta
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Mark U. Stein
Affiliation:
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
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Questions of accommodation, home and belonging, exile, migrancy and diaspora recur across the history of black and Asian writing from the eighteenth century to the present. Following the publication of key works such as Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), and V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987), it was increasingly clear that the figure of the migrant was beginning to be seen both as the ‘Everyman’ of the late modern period – a cultural traveller able to traverse a number of shifting national, political and ethnic boundaries – and as a figure already well versed in negotiating the demands of a new transnational and global world. Focusing on some of these seminal texts as well as fictions by a later generation of British migrant writers (such as, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Sunetra Gupta, Monica Ali, and Caryl Phillips), this chapter explores how these writers’ mixed identities and plural literary perspectives began to herald a wider recognition of Britain as a racially mixed postcolonial nation, at the same time marking a sea change in the form, style, range, and geography of British fiction.

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Print publication year: 2020

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  • Diasporic Translocations
  • Edited by Susheila Nasta, Queen Mary University of London, Mark U. Stein, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
  • Online publication: 19 December 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164146.028
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  • Diasporic Translocations
  • Edited by Susheila Nasta, Queen Mary University of London, Mark U. Stein, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
  • Online publication: 19 December 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164146.028
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  • Diasporic Translocations
  • Edited by Susheila Nasta, Queen Mary University of London, Mark U. Stein, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
  • Online publication: 19 December 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164146.028
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