South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain

Ranasinha, Ruvani

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“…From the end of the 19th century, when Western civilization was commonly perceived to be in decline, many European writers had turned to Indian spiritual writing, in particular, as a source of cultural renewal. This craze for Indian writing also explains why Rabindranath Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize for literature as early as 1913 (Ranasinha 2007). As Pascale Casanova (2008) points out, such symbolical capital also improves the starting position of emerging writers perceived to be from the same context.…”

Section: Success Stories? Indian Writers In Interwar Britainmentioning

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Literature and migration

Sievers¹

2013

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

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Migration and literature have been inextricably linked since antiquity at least when several authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca, lived in exile and discussed this topic in their works, anticipating many of the ideas that have pervaded migrant writing up to the present day (Gaertner 2007). Many large‐scale migratory movements over the last centuries also involved or produced writers. Such movements laid the basis for the literatures of the Americas and of Australia as we know them today – to the detriment of existing indigenous traditions – and for numerous diasporic literatures ranging from Jewish writing in Spanish America (Sosnowski 2004) to Korean writing in Japan (Kim 2005). But writers have also taken less‐trodden paths and chosen to live in exile in order to gain a critical distance from their home countries and to gather new impetus for their writing, as many American authors, such as Gertrude Stein or Ernest Hemingway, did in Paris during the interwar years (Green 2011).

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Section: Success Stories? Indian Writers In Interwar Britainmentioning

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“…Rao's editor tried to convince the author to adapt his text to the demands of a British audience, but Rao resisted. The British press proved the publisher right: his style was criticized by many reviewers (Ranasinha 2007).…”

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Literature and migration

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2013

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“…Resistance to the subsuming effects of the term 'black' gradually grew, among British Asians in particular. The Asian Women Writers' Collective chose not to include 'black' as part of its designation when it formed in 1987, 13…”

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Forging Connections

Abram¹

2020

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing

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“…Nevertheless, Rushdie's use of culturally specific allusions, references and expressions, and the absence of explanation of non-English items in his later novels have also been read as a mark of his texts' postcoloniality and of his solicitation of a specific Indian audience (Singh, 1988: 245). As I have argued more fully elsewhere, the question of what to do with "untranslatable" items has been a site of contestation between postcolonial writers and their metropolitan publishers since early migrant writers began to publish their work in Euro-American contexts, and yet still remains a thorny issue in cross-cultural discourse (Ranasinha, 2007;2012). This struggle is still necessarily perilous for the less dominant language.…”

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Writing and reading Sri Lanka: Shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader

Ranasinha

2013

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This article seeks to explore the politics of diasporic Sri Lankan fiction in relation to global markets and readerships. It argues for a revision of a long-standing notion of the informed reader in the Euro-American tradition in line with the rise of postcolonial literature. It explores the politics of linguistic and cultural "untranslatability" primarily in relation to Romesh Gunesekera's fiction, and demonstrates how such diasporic novels problematize the nature of readership, as well as the tension between aesthetics and politics in the literary text. It asks to what extent are the differing responses to diasporic, intercultural texts explicable in terms of differing "horizons of expectations" of diverse, multi-levelled readerships? If so, how and why has this changed over the last decade?

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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain

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Writing and reading Sri Lanka: Shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader

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