Writing the Diaspora: Essays on Culture and Identity, , Uma Parameswaran, Rawat Publications, 8131600734

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Writing the Diaspora: Essays on Culture and Identity

Uma Parameswaran (Author)

Synopsis The essays in this volume a variety of writers such as Kamala Markandaya, Gita Mehta and Shashi Tharoor, and Many writers and artists who live in Canada. Uma Parameswaran brings her own experience of living for forty years outside Indian to her analysis of diasporic identity and culture. The essays, spread over several decades, work through many genres, methodologies and strategies as they display a cross-cultural sensibility and attempt to look at Indian Culture and cultural artifacts from the Canadian perspective.

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About the author

Uma Parameswaran

Uma Parameswaran was born and educated in India, and has lived in Canada since 1966. She has a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and is Professor of English at the university f Winnipeg. She us the author of numerous critical essays on postcolonial literatures and of several works of fiction, including Riding High with Krishna and a baseball bat & other Stories (2006), Mangoes on the maple Tyree (2002), The Sweet Smell of Motherâ€™s Milk-Wet Bodice (2001), and award winning What was Always Hers/(1999). She lives in Winnipeg with her husband, who is a mathematician.

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