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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/497540| Title: | Interpolating transnational heritage: the role of young adult literature in the metropolitan South Asian Diaspora |
| Authors: | Manohari Rasagam (P60520) |
| Supervisor: | Shanthini Pillai, Prof. Madya Dr. |
| Keywords: | South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan texts Young adult literature Transnational heritage Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations |
| Issue Date: | 12-Oct-2014 |
| Description: | This thesis investigates and determines the relevance of South Asian Diasporic metropolitan texts in terms of subject matter and context to the diasporic South Asian young adult. It argues that the trend of an engagement primarily with only metropolitan texts could signify the formation of a canon of young adult literature that is largely 'Eurocentric'. This phenomena may contribute to the process of an Othering of the non-white experience within the South Asian young adult. The research corpus centres specifically on texts written by both male and female metropolitan diasporic South Asian authors. These are Rukhsana Khan's Dahling If You Luv Me Would You Please, Please Smile and Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming In The Monsoon Sea from Canada; Narindher Dhami's Bindi Babes and Bali Rai's An (Un)arranged Marriage from the United Kingdom; and Tanuja Desai Hidier's Born Confused and Rakesh Satyal's Blue Boy from the United States of America. The method of analysis is based on the theory of postcolonial transformation and diasporic theory to investigate the ways in which South Asian elements of place and history, language and allegory as well as habitation and horizon interpolate into the narrative space of the text and the consciousness of the diasporic South Asian reader. The implications of this study indicate diasporic Young Adult Literature can play a role in interpolating transnational heritage, in three regards: first to create awareness of cultural heritage on familiar young adult grounds, second to decentre Eurocentric narrative discourse through the introduction of an emerging body of diasporic young adult literature into the western narrative space; and finally the transformation of traditional diasporic concerns into young adult concerns through interpolation. The results show that transnationalism plays an important role in the development of youth culture and ethnic identity. The study concludes that these findings are important as they contribute to the scholarship on young adult literature particularly in cultivating transnational awareness in the mindset of the South Asian young adult.,Ph.D. |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Publisher: | UKM, Bangi |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan |
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