Author: Graeme Dunphy

Source: Neophilologus, Volume 88, Number 4, October 2004 , pp. 637-659(23)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

Syal’s novel Anita and Me describes the childhood of Meena, a young member of the Asian diaspora in Britain in the late 1960s. The article demonstrates how this book draws on Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird for inspiration, and shows how a post-colonial reading of Lee’s description of the American South provides a way into a similar reading of Syal. The relationship of the two may then be understood as a post-colonial ‘writing back’.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-004-5674-8

Affiliations: 1: Institut für Auglistik, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrae 31, 95053, Regensburg, Germany, Email: g@dunphy.dee 31, 95053, Regensburg, Germany, Email: g@dunphy.de">

Publication date: 2004-10-01

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