Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
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Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
Knor, Sarah
Taylor & Francis Ltd
12/2022
216
Dura
Inglês
9781032420479
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: more than one mother
1.1 Gender and nation
1.2 Theories of the maternal
1.3 Theories of diaspora
1.4 Outline of chapters
2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling
2.1 Bharat Mata
2.1.1 Vande Mataram
2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor
2.1.3 Condensation and transaction
2.1.4 Metaphorical performances
2.2 Kipling's imperial Mother India
2.2.1 Imperial doublings
2.2.2 The native-born diaspora
3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
3.1 Diasporic maternal practices
3.2 Victorian Mothers
3.3 The performance of mothering
3.4 'De-condensing' Mother India
3.5 Diasporic bastards
4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa's
Cracking India and Sara Suleri's Meatless Days.
4.1 Sidhwa's matricide
4.1.1 Allegorical readings
4.1.2 Hired Mother India
4.2 Suleri's mother elegy
4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging
4.2.2 Mother(ing)land
4.2.3 Performances of abjection
5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old
Woman and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5.1 Performing the mother tongue
5.2 A wicked old mother
5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering
5.4 Diasporic seas
5.5 Ali's coming-of-agency
6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics
6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours
6.2 Retrospects and prospects
7. Appendix
8. Works cited
9. Index
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: more than one mother
1.1 Gender and nation
1.2 Theories of the maternal
1.3 Theories of diaspora
1.4 Outline of chapters
2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling
2.1 Bharat Mata
2.1.1 Vande Mataram
2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor
2.1.3 Condensation and transaction
2.1.4 Metaphorical performances
2.2 Kipling's imperial Mother India
2.2.1 Imperial doublings
2.2.2 The native-born diaspora
3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
3.1 Diasporic maternal practices
3.2 Victorian Mothers
3.3 The performance of mothering
3.4 'De-condensing' Mother India
3.5 Diasporic bastards
4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa's
Cracking India and Sara Suleri's Meatless Days.
4.1 Sidhwa's matricide
4.1.1 Allegorical readings
4.1.2 Hired Mother India
4.2 Suleri's mother elegy
4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging
4.2.2 Mother(ing)land
4.2.3 Performances of abjection
5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old
Woman and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5.1 Performing the mother tongue
5.2 A wicked old mother
5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering
5.4 Diasporic seas
5.5 Ali's coming-of-agency
6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics
6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours
6.2 Retrospects and prospects
7. Appendix
8. Works cited
9. Index
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gender theory;maternal metaphors;postcolonial studies;feminist literary criticism;nationalist discourse analysis;performativity in literature;maternal identity in diaspora fiction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: more than one mother
1.1 Gender and nation
1.2 Theories of the maternal
1.3 Theories of diaspora
1.4 Outline of chapters
2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling
2.1 Bharat Mata
2.1.1 Vande Mataram
2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor
2.1.3 Condensation and transaction
2.1.4 Metaphorical performances
2.2 Kipling's imperial Mother India
2.2.1 Imperial doublings
2.2.2 The native-born diaspora
3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
3.1 Diasporic maternal practices
3.2 Victorian Mothers
3.3 The performance of mothering
3.4 'De-condensing' Mother India
3.5 Diasporic bastards
4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa's
Cracking India and Sara Suleri's Meatless Days.
4.1 Sidhwa's matricide
4.1.1 Allegorical readings
4.1.2 Hired Mother India
4.2 Suleri's mother elegy
4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging
4.2.2 Mother(ing)land
4.2.3 Performances of abjection
5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old
Woman and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5.1 Performing the mother tongue
5.2 A wicked old mother
5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering
5.4 Diasporic seas
5.5 Ali's coming-of-agency
6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics
6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours
6.2 Retrospects and prospects
7. Appendix
8. Works cited
9. Index
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: more than one mother
1.1 Gender and nation
1.2 Theories of the maternal
1.3 Theories of diaspora
1.4 Outline of chapters
2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling
2.1 Bharat Mata
2.1.1 Vande Mataram
2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor
2.1.3 Condensation and transaction
2.1.4 Metaphorical performances
2.2 Kipling's imperial Mother India
2.2.1 Imperial doublings
2.2.2 The native-born diaspora
3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
3.1 Diasporic maternal practices
3.2 Victorian Mothers
3.3 The performance of mothering
3.4 'De-condensing' Mother India
3.5 Diasporic bastards
4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa's
Cracking India and Sara Suleri's Meatless Days.
4.1 Sidhwa's matricide
4.1.1 Allegorical readings
4.1.2 Hired Mother India
4.2 Suleri's mother elegy
4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging
4.2.2 Mother(ing)land
4.2.3 Performances of abjection
5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old
Woman and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5.1 Performing the mother tongue
5.2 A wicked old mother
5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering
5.4 Diasporic seas
5.5 Ali's coming-of-agency
6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics
6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours
6.2 Retrospects and prospects
7. Appendix
8. Works cited
9. Index
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