Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth''s A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri''s Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi''s Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi''s The Buddha of Suburbia and T...