Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives

1. ‘Our Eastern Costume Created a Sensation’: Sartorial Encounters in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Travelogues by South Asian Writers
Noemí Pereira-Ares

2. The ‘Sartorially Undesirable “Other”’ in Post-War South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man

Noemí Pereira-Ares

3. ‘It Was Stylish and “in” to Be Eastern’? Subversive Dress in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Noemí Pereira-Ares

4. ‘Chanel Designing Catwalk Indian Suits’: Sartorial Negotiations in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Noemí Pereira-Ares

5. ‘She Had Her Hijab Pulled Off’: Dressed Bodies Do Matter in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Noemí Pereira-Ares

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction