This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities. It will be of interest to academics in the field of SA Studies, SA literature, Asian literature, diaspora and literary studies.

Sireesha Telugu teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. Her research interests include Indian Diaspora and Literature, South Asian Diaspora, American Literature, and Indian Writing in English. She is the author of Diasporic Indian Women Writers: Quest for Identity in their Short Stories (2009).

Introduction: Linguistic and Literary Identities; 1.Shifting Contours of Identification: Contemporary Tamil Diasporic Writing; 2. Partitions, Naxalbari, and Intergenerational Diasporic Bengali Identities in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Purba Paschim (East West); 3. Marathi Diasporic Literature: Understanding Anxieties, Identities and Diversity in Select Fiction; 4. Intersections of the Vernacular and the Diaspora: The Genre of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) and the Pravasi (Migrant) writer: Usha Priyamvada; 5. Diasporic Writings of Indian Nepalis: Issues of History and Identity; 6. Remapping the Land: Displacement and Memory in Benyamin's Aadujeevitham and Khadeeja Mumtaz's Barsa; 7. Hostlands, Homelands and the Odia Diaspora: From Boyita to Biman; 8. The Dynamics of Movement in G.S. Nakshdeep Panjkoha's Girvi Hoye Mann: Would the Twain Never Meet?; Glossary