Lisa Lau's Outputs (3)

Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry (2022)
Book Chapter
Lau. (2022). Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry. In Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles (2021)
Book Chapter
lau, L. (2021). No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles. In Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers. Modern Language Association

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women’s writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary... Read More about No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles.

Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg (2014)
Book Chapter
Lau, L. (2014). Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg. In Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (191-217). New York: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211710_012

This article compares and juxtaposes the handling of Coorg, the representation of its community, the depiction of the land and people, its rituals, festivals, customs and culture, through two novels written in English, both set in Coorg. Novels set i... Read More about Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg.