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Migration, immigration & emigration
Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction - Head Work
by Author(s): Adriana Elena Stoican
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This book offers captivating insights into the interaction between the Indian and the American cultural worlds. A fascinating work of research, it illustrates an extraordinary capacity to employ the details of literary texts as significant clues in understanding the configuration of transcultural identities. The book constructs an exciting dialogue between complex theoretical notions and the vibrant fictional worlds populated by Indian, American and European characters. Its original and multi-layered approach illustrates how complex theories of culture can help the reader understand contemporary processes of migration, cultural change and gender identity that interfere with daily life.
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Author Biography
Adriana Elena Stoican received her PhD from the University of Bucharest, and is a Lecturer at Lumina – The University of South-East Europe, Romania, where she has taught since 2010. She has also served as an interpreter for the Romanian National Office for Refugees and the Romanian National Council for Refugees. Specialized in English and Hindi philology, she has published papers on Romani identity and Indian diasporic fiction in English with a focus on South Asian American women’s literature. Her work has been included in Between History and Personal Narrative: East European Women’s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium (LIT Verlag, 2013); Humanicus-Academic Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Philosophy (2012); Muses India: Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie (2013); Shakespeare, Translation and the European Dimension (2012); TRANS – Internet Journal for Cultural Studies (2008); and The University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies (2008, 2009, 2013).
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