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Synopsis
An anthology of Goan writing, now in a revised edition. First published in the mid-1980s in the US. This is the third reprint of 'Goan Literature: A Modern Reader', but the first time it is available to readers in Goa. First published as the Journal of South Asian Literature, by the Michigan State University's Asian Studies Centre (Winter, Spring 1983), a second US edition was published in 1985. Nearly one generation after it was first published, this volume has something to say to Goans in Goa -- and all interested in Goan writing -- today. Includes an entirely new 12,300 word foreword by Peter Nazareth, who has had a long and useful tenure at the University of Iowa. This volume also takes a look at new Goan writers that grew after the first anthology was published. Undoubtedly, in a way, the original 1983 work was a dynamo for building the visibility of Goan writing (specially in English) globally. With its significant focus on the writing of expat Goans, this book underlines the reality that "people in exile will never give up hope of returning home to the very last day of their life," as the Iraqi poet in self-exile Saadi A Simawe said, when responding to this book. "Pivoting on the Point of Return" seeks to also captures the essence of exile, and expands the field of Goan literature into a universal realm.
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Peter Nazareth (b. 1940) is a major critic and writer of fiction. Born in Uganda of Goan and Malaysian ancestry, he was educated at Makerere University (Uganda) and at Leeds University. In Africa, he served as Senior Finance Officer in the Ministry of Finance, until he accepted the Seymour Lustman Fellowship at Yale University in 1973. He is Professor of English, and Advisor to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. His reviews of Goan writing have attracted a global audience to work from a tiny but creative region. Nazareth's work has been translated into ten languages.
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Pivoting on the Point of Return: Modern Goan Literature
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Goa 1556 / Broadway Book Centre, 2010
ISBN 10: 8190568256
ISBN 13: 9788190568258
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Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Mario De Miranda; Ladis Da Silva (illustrator). Signed and inscribed by Peter Nazareth to a named individual on the half-title page. No owners' marks; there is a pale damp-stain on the right page block edge which has caused some slight wrinkling on the final pages, otherwise clean; binding is tight; the soft cover bears long surface wrinkles along the spine and some rubbing at the free edges, otherwise sound.; Signed by Editor. Seller Inventory # 055670