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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Publicado en:	Comparative American Studies Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 57 - 71
Autor principal:	Sen, Krishna
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2009
Materias:	Culture diffusion Namesake, The (Book) Tree Bride, The (Book) Indiamen New England history History Intellectual life Commerce India New England
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