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From: CarterRau-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:38:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Women Indian Writers/Films


Hello, 
This is not a critical list. I disagree politically with some of these
authors (e.g. Nazeen Sadiq and Bharati Mukherjee) but I try to fill my
bookshelves with as much fiction by South Asian women writing in diaspora as
my budget permits (sometimes regardless of quality)!

"Transmission"--Atima Srivastava, Serpent's Tail (UK) 1992
"Junglee Girl"--Ginu Kamani, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK), 1996
"An American Brat"--Bapsi Sidhwa, Milkweed Editions (US), 1993
"Ice Bangles"--Nazeen Sadiq, James Lorimer & Company (Canada), 1988
"Love, Stars and All That"--Kirin Narayan, Washington Square Press (US), 1994
"Bombay Talkie"--Ameena Meer, High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail (UK), 1994
"The Journey"--Indira Ganesan, Minerva (UK), 1991
"A Change of Skies"--Yasmine Gooneratne, Penguin, 1992
"Arranged Marriage"--Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anchor Books (US), 1995
"Her Mother's Ashes (and other stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the
United States), ed. Nurjehan Aziz, TSAR Publications (Canada), 1994
"Our Feet Walk the Sky" (Women of the South Asian Diaspora), Aunt Lute Books
(US),  1993
"Living in America-Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers" ed.
Roshmi Rustomji-Kerns, Westview Press, 1995
"Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women",
ed. Asian Women United of California, Beacon Press, 1989
"Anita and Me", Meera Syal, Flamingo (UK), 1996
Try the SAWNET Home page for more.

A couple of films, again without critical comment:
Indu Krishnan, Knowing Her Place (1990)
Most things by Gurinder Chadha (I'm British but...(UK, 1990), Bhaji on the
Beach (her first feature film, 1993), A Nice Arrangement (1991), Acting Our
Age (1993)
"Sam and Me" (1991, focuses on men but made by Deepa Mehta who now lives in
Toronto...)
Mississippi Masala (1991, Mira Nair)
"Provoked Wife" (1991, Gita Sehgal, UK)
>From a Pakistani woman director, Sabiha Sumar, although not about women in
diaspora--"Where Peacocks Dance (1992) and "Who Will Cast the First Stone"
(1988)
"Khush" (!991) by Pratibha Parmar who has numerous other films 

There's plenty more so if these are too obvious, let me know.

Leela MadhavaRau


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