The Bengal Connection: Transnationalising America in The Namesake and The Tree Bride.

A reading is presented of The Namesake and The Tree Bride as diasporic novels that transnationalise the host culture by inscribing the ethnicity and history of Bengal on to the cultural topography of America. This interpolation is contextualised both in terms of the 'Bengal connection' — the now occ...

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Published in:	Comparative American Studies Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 57 - 71
Main Author:	Sen, Krishna
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2009
Subjects:	Culture diffusion Namesake, The (Book) Tree Bride, The (Book) Indiamen New England history History Intellectual life Commerce India New England
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost