South to South

Writing South Asia in the American South

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2023
Texas Review Press (Verlag)
9781680032963 (ISBN)

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An anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays that depict diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the immigrants have left behind, while the others spotlight the immigrants’ struggles to reconcile with realities they did not sign up for.

This anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the immigrants have left behind, while the others spotlight the immigrants’ struggles to reconcile with realities they did not sign up for. In Chaitali Sen’s “The Immigrant,” Dhruv is unable to talk about a lost boy because he feels “as if he were trapping the boy with his story,” as if the lost boy’s story were his own story of getting lost in a foreign country. In Hasanthika Sirisena’s “Pine,” a Christmas tree becomes more than “only a pine tree with decorations thrown on it” when Lakshmi’s ex-husband lets her know he is converting to Christianity “to get ahead in this country.” Aruni Kashyap’s “Nafisa Ali’s Life, Love, and Friendships, Before and after the Travel Ban” tell a post-2016 immigrant story in which love is baffling. In “Gettysburg,” Kirtan Nautiyal asks, how does an immigrant become part of the new country’s history? Soniah Kamal’s essay “Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South” reflects on what it means to be an immigrant writer and if one can write from two places at once. Together, the stories and essays in the anthology compose a mosaic of South Asian lived experiences in the American South.

INTRODUCTION IX
Chaitali Sen THE IMMIGRANT, story 1
Hasanthika Sirisena PINE, story 13
Kirtan Nautiyal GETTYSBURG, essay 27
Jaya Wagle FRESH OFF THE PLANE, essay 37
Aruni Kashyap NAFISA ALI’S LIFE, LOVE, AND
FRIENDSHIPS, BEFORE AND AFTER
THE TRAVEL BAN, story 49
Anuja Ghimire MAIL AND MORE, story 69
Anjali Enjeti DRINKING CHAI TO SAVANNAH, essay 77
Tarfia Faizullah NECESSARY FAILURE, essay 85
Sindya Bhanoo NATURE EXCHANGE, story 89
Ali Eteraz ENCASED, story 105
Sayantani Dasgupta RINSE, REPEAT, essay 117
Shikha Malaviya WHAT I FOUND THERE:
TRANSCENDENCE THROUGH THE BLUES
AND TWO BOOKS, essay 127
Rukmini Kalamangalam SLOW FRUITING, essay 137
Jenny Bhatt THE WEIGHT OF HIS BONES, story 145
Khem K. Aryal LAXMAN SIR IN AMERICA, story 151
Soniah Kamal WRITING THE IMMIGRANT SOUTHERN
IN THE NEW NEW SOUTH, essay 165
CONTRIBUTORS 180
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 184

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2023
Co-Autor	Sindya Bhanoo, Jenny Bhatt, Sayantani DasGupta, Anjali Enjeti
Verlagsort	Huntsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 220 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781680032963 / 9781680032963
Zustand	Neuware