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 Halp, 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 Nar, Laetitia Zecchini, Mariam Pirbhai, Sehba Sarwar, Rajith Savanadasa, Alexandra Watkins, Sungchuk Kyi, Ruth Gamble, Samrat Upadhyay, and Prakash Subedi.
P>Review "This is an immensely valuable collection of theoretical, political, and personal reflection. Brimming with critical insight, the conversations articulate a richly textured transnational/diasporic sensibility. Highly recommended." -- Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, University of London; Author of Cartographies of Diaspora, Contesting Identities About the Author: Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, and formerly taught at the University of Otago. She has published widely on New Zealand postcolonial/diaspora writers such as Dan Davin, Fleur Adcock and Katherine Mansfield, and has an interest in globalisation and the short story and cosmopolitan war fictions. She recently coedited Katherine Mansfield: New directions (2019). She edits the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and convenes the AHRC-funded Diaspora Screen Media Network.- We ship across Australia, including major cities like: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle and the Gold Coast