ABSTRACT

This anthology shows the influences of Western literature and the Western literary traditions, especially as they exist in world literature written in English. It contains stories and poems dealing with South Asian American experiences and presents the evocative themes of love, loss, and exile.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

chapter |16 pages

Crossing the Dark Waters

part 1|2 pages

Poetry

chapter |4 pages

Meena Alexander

chapter |4 pages

Agha Shahid Ali

chapter |2 pages

Indran Amirthanayagam

chapter |2 pages

G. S. Sharat Chandra

chapter |2 pages

Darius Cooper

chapter |4 pages

Rienzi Crusz

chapter |4 pages

Chitra Divakaruni

chapter |2 pages

Minai Hajratwala

chapter |4 pages

Diane S. Mehta

chapter |2 pages

Panna Naik

chapter |4 pages

Saleem Peeradina

chapter |4 pages

Jyotsna Sanzgiri

chapter |2 pages

Rashmi Sharma

chapter |2 pages

Neera Kuckreja Sohoni

chapter |2 pages

Amita Vasudeva

part 2|2 pages

Fiction

chapter |10 pages

Qiron Adhikary

chapter |6 pages

Meena Alexander

chapter |4 pages

Boman Desai

chapter |6 pages

Chitra Divakaruni

chapter |6 pages

Lakshmi Gill

chapter |6 pages

Anu Gupta

chapter |12 pages

Naseem A. Hines

chapter |8 pages

Litu Kabir

chapter |2 pages

Anuradha Mannar

chapter |4 pages

Ved Mehta

chapter |6 pages

Tara Menon

chapter |10 pages

Tahira Naqvi

chapter |12 pages

Kirin Narayan

chapter |6 pages

Usha Nilsson

chapter |8 pages

Rajesh C. Oza

chapter 31|10 pages

Uma Parameswaran

chapter 32|10 pages

Javaid Qazi

chapter 33|8 pages

Sarita Sarvate

chapter 34|14 pages

Neila C. Seshachari

chapter 35|6 pages

Moazzam Sheikh

chapter |6 pages

Ranbir Sidhu

chapter |10 pages

Bapsi Sidhwa

chapter |4 pages

Neera Kuckreja Sohoni

chapter 39|8 pages

Jyotsna Sreenivasan

chapter |10 pages

Rajini Srikanth

chapter |12 pages

About the Contributors

chapter |1 pages

About the Book and Editor