Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers' Workshop) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813523842 ISBN 13: 9780813523842

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This anthology of fiction, essays, poetry, and photography explores the transformative experiences that lead individuals to declare new forms of belonging in North America. The contributors reveal multiple ways of "feeling at home".

About this title

Review:

"There is an explosion of energy and talent in this book. Through fiction, poetry, essay, interview and memoir, South Asian American/Canadian writers depict a diversity of lives: taxi-drivers, computer company owners, aspiring rockstars, rebellious sisters, gay couples, children who feign sleep to listen in on their elders, elders petrified about dying in America. Contours of the Heart is a wonderful testament to the ways in which the literatures of North America and of South Asia are being enriched by writings which stir up and recombine the continents." --Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels and Love, Stars, and All That "Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America is a splendid collection: as rich and varied as the Indian sub-continent itself. There could be no better proof--if proof were needed--of the extraordinary talent, dynamism, and energy of the South Asian diaspora in North America." --Amitav Ghosh, author of The Shadow Lines in an Antique Land and The Circle of Reason

About the Author:

Sunaina Maira is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who is doing her dissertation research on the ethnic identity development of second-generation Indian Americans. Rajini Srikanth teaches literature and Women's Studies at Tufts University and Wellesley College and is co-editor of Closing the Gap: South Asian Americans in Asian America (Temple).

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813523842
• ISBN 13: 9780813523842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Maira Sunaina, Srikanth Rajini