Reshmi J Hebbar: 2 books
Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing
Beyond Trishanku
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in...
Modeling Minority Women
Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.