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 The Black Album , and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet , with reference to other texts, su