Reshmi: 6 books

Book cover of South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11
by Hasan al Zayed, Lopamudra Basu, Chandrima Chakraborty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the...
Book cover of Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing
by Gurbir Singh Jolly, Izabella Kimak, María Alonso Alonso
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in...
Book cover of Modeling Minority Women

Modeling Minority Women

Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction

by Reshmi J. Hebbar
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.
Book cover of Five Super C.H.A.M.P.S
by Reshmi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

This book comprises of five short stories of five very adorable children. They do everything that most children do, love to play, are a little mischievous at times, and adore their pets and other animals. They have their little worlds made of innocence, imagination, and fun in the real world. They belong to different countries and cultures. Will destiny get them together?
Book cover of The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction

The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction

A Linguistic Stylistic Approach

by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non-linear,...
Book cover of Land Conflicts Across Frontiers

Land Conflicts Across Frontiers

Contested Spaces in Myanmar & North East India

by Reshmi Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018

Land Conflicts Across Frontiers compares Myanmar’s journey with North East India on the critical and contested issue of land. It examines concerns related to land in pre-colonial and colonial history, causes and consequences of land conflicts today, the socioeconomic dynamics attached to land, along...
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