Routes and dwellings: transnationality and writing the Indian diaspora in Ethiopia in Abraham Verghese's Cutting for stone
The narrator and surgeon, Marion's words, "Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed" in commencing to tell the story of a wound that divides two brothers, could well be mimed and rhymed in "Where history fails to tell, story must succeed" as the novel Cutting for Stone...
| Published in: | Nidān |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2016
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Nidān
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| Further subjects: | B
Indian Diaspora
B Migration B Transnationality B Ethiopia B Modernisation |
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| Summary: | The narrator and surgeon, Marion's words, "Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed" in commencing to tell the story of a wound that divides two brothers, could well be mimed and rhymed in "Where history fails to tell, story must succeed" as the novel Cutting for Stone spans Ethiopia, India and America and the lives of expatriates and transnational workers and their children in four continents across three generations. And in the process it also touches on a chapter of Ethiopia's modernity that awaits to be written, i.e., one that over a long period of time involves Indian doctors, teachers, merchants, traders, entrepreneurs, architects, artisans, nuns and priests from the orthodox church in Kerala. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2016.1 |