| Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers Contributor(s): Lokuge, Chandani (Editor), Ringrose, Chris (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3838215443 ISBN-13: 9783838215440 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.75" W x 8.19" (0.75 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: South Asian diasporic writing--poetry, fiction, literary theory, and drama by writers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka now living in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA--is one of the most vibrant areas of contemporary world literature. In this volume, eighteen acclaimed writers from this tradition are interviewed by experts in the field about their political, thematic, and personal concerns as well as their working methods and the publishing scene. The book also includes an authoritative introduction to the field, and essays on each writer and interviewer. The interviewers and interviewees are: Rukhsana Ahmad, Maryam Mirza, Michelle Cahill, Chris Ringrose, Shankari Chandran, Birte Heidemann, Amit Chaudhuri, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, R. Cheran, Aparna Halpé, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Reshmi Lahiri-Roy, Sulari Gentill, Angela Savage, Romesh Gunesekera, Susheila Nasta, Kaiser Haq, Mohammad A. Quayum, Tabish Khair, Mridula Koshy, Neel Mukherjee, Anjali Joseph, Karthika Naïr, Laetitia Zecchini, Mariam Pirbhai, Sehba Sarwar, Rajith Savanadasa, Alexandra Watkins, Sungchuk Kyi, Ruth Gamble, Samrat Upadhyay, and Prakash Subedi. |