@article{1398169,
      recid = {1398169},
      author = {Jain, Jasbir,},
      title = {The diaspora writes home : subcontinental narratives /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many  ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost  homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry,  history of the homeland, culture and the current political  conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, 'how  does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the  homeland's relationship to the diaspora as representatives  of the contemporary homeland in another country?'. The last  is an interesting point of discussion since the 'present'  of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The  transformations that new locations have brought about as  migrants have travelled through time and interacted with  the politics of their settled lands--Africa, Fiji, the  Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the  countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan  and Bangladesh--have altered their affiliations and  perspectives. This book gathers multiple dispersions of  emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time  and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The  word 'write' is used in its multiplicity to refer to  creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity,  and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and  carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics,  categories which need to be problematised vis-à-vis the  writer and his/her emotional location.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398169},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3.},
}