Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature

Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction: Histories and Contexts Toward a Pedagogy of South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Writing: Histories and Geographies of Dispersion, by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi Part II: East Meets South: Africa and the Caribbean M. G. Vassanji's Fiction in a Transnational, Postcolonial, and Social Justice Context, by Asma Sayed Indianness in the Caribbean: Strategies for Teaching Indo-Caribbean Anglophone Literature, by Anita Baksh Faulty Stereotypes: Indo-Caribbean Literature and a Pedagogy of Social Justice, by Mayuri Deka History, Historiography, Ethnography, and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, by Dharitri Bhattacharjee Goa on the Literary Atlas: Questioning Belonging, by R. Benedito Ferrao Part III: East Meets West: Post-World War II Britain We Are Not All Migrants: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways, by Alpana Sharma Cosmopolitanism and Crisis in South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Novels, by C. S. Bhagya Teaching the Cousinship of Experience: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman across Time and Cultures, by Feroza Jussawalla Part IV: East Meets North: The United States and Canada Remembering as Learning: South Asian Histories in a Canadian Classroom, by Chandrima Chakraborty "Watch Me Reposition" Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, by Robin E. Field Race, Citizenship, and Community Formation in Bhira Backhaus's Under the Lemon Trees and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, by Rajender Kaur Teaching Nepali Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Esther Daimari Part V: East Meets North: The Sri Lankan Refugee Diaspora Reimagining the Refugee Crisis through Sharon Bala's The Boat People, by Umme Al-wazedi Teaching Sri Lankan American Literature in the American South, by Dinidu Karunanayake Navigating the Homeland/Hostland Dynamic: Sri Lankan Diasporic Literature, by Maryse Jayasuriya Teaching Sri Lanka in the United States: Human Rights in the Literary and Visual Imaginations, by Manav Ratti Part VI: East Meets North: The Pakistani American Diaspora after 9/11 Teaching Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature, by Mushtaq Bilal Recontextualizing the Global Diaspora: Mohsin Hamid's Exit West at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, by Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay Resisting Racialization: Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Ethnic Studies Courses, by Binod Paudyal Pakistani Anglophone Diasporic Literature in Writing-Intensive Seminars, by Suhaan Kiran Mehta Part VII: The Forms of Diaspora: Nonfiction, Film, Television, Digital and Creative Writing Teaching Memoirs: Nonfiction as Public Discourse in South Asian Diasporas, by Subhalakshmi Gooptu Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement, Close Reading, and Moments of Recognition, by Matthew Spencer Joke's on Us: Indian Americans, Comedy, and Writing America, by Madhurima Chakraborty Extimate Pedagogies, Intimate Texts: Teaching Digital South Asian Diasporas, by Robyn Caruthers and Asha Vardharajan "A Temporary Matter": Jhumpa Lahiri and Creative Writing Pedagogy, by Amina Gautier Recovering the Gendered Violence and Trauma of Partition in the Me Too Era, by Nidhi Shrivastava Notes on Contributors

"An excellent and important addition to the list of MLA teaching volumes. . . . essential reading [for scholars and students in] South Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, world literatures, Anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies and gender studies." -South Asia Research