Ruth Maxey

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Research Summary

To date my research has principally focused upon Asian American literature and film, British Asian writing and cinema, transatlantic cross-currents, and contemporary US literature more widely.

In this work I have considered conceptions of home and return, and travel and migration; whiteness, racial mixing, and mixed-race identity; food and eating in an immigrant context; and the textual uses of hidden histories. I have also explored American and postcolonial life-writing.

Selected Publications

• MAXEY, RUTH, 2012. South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• MAXEY, R., 2012. "'Beige Outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience". In: JONATHAN P.A. SELL, ed., Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 80-98
• MAXEY, R., 2012. "'Mother-Weights and Lost Fathers': Parents in South Asian American Literature" Wasafiri. 27(1), 25-31
• MAXEY, R., 2008. " ‘Representative’ of British Asian Fiction? The Critical Reception of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane". In: MURPHY, NEIL and CHEW, SIM WAI, eds., British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. 217-236

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Past Research

Asian American and British Asian cultural production, transatlantic studies, postcolonial literature, early 20th-century prose-writing, contemporary fiction.

Future Research

I have just published my first book, South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and now plan to produce a monograph on Bharati Mukherjee. The main topic for my future research beyond this second book will be the development of American life-writing.

• MAXEY, RUTH, 2012. South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• MAXEY, R., 2012. "'Beige Outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience". In: JONATHAN P.A. SELL, ed., Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 80-98
• MAXEY, R., 2012. "'Mother-Weights and Lost Fathers': Parents in South Asian American Literature" Wasafiri. 27(1), 25-31
• MAXEY, R., 2010. "'The Messiness of Rebirth as an Immigrant': Bharati Mukherjee's Changing Language of Migration" (reprint). In: MANDAL, SOMDATTA, ed., Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives New Delhi: Pencraft. 63-82
• MAXEY, R., 2010. "New American Moralities: Ruth Maxey sits down with Tom Perrotta" Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. 22(2), 272-280
• MAXEY, R., 2010. "Tom Perrotta in Conversation about Literary Adaptation" Literature/Film Quarterly. 38(4), 269-276
• MAXEY, R., 2009. "The Task of Poetry: A Conversation with Ruth Maxey" (reprint). In: ALEXANDER, M., ed., Poetics of Dislocation Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 189-195
• MAXEY, R., 2008. "Jhumpa Lahiri" and "Maxine Hong Kingston" The Literary Encyclopedia. Available at: <http://www.litencyc.com>
• MAXEY, R., 2008. " ‘Representative’ of British Asian Fiction? The Critical Reception of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane". In: MURPHY, NEIL and CHEW, SIM WAI, eds., British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. 217-236
• MAXEY, R., 2007. Entries on Carlos Bulosan, G.V. Desani, Bharati Mukherjee, Hanif Kureishi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nadeem Aslam and Jeffrey Eugenides. In: DANIEL, LUCY, ed., Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Rocked the Literary World London: Cassell Illustrated. 328, 342, 671, 678, 745, 765, 769.
• MAXEY, R., 2006. " ‘Who Wants Pale, Thin, Pink Flesh?’: Bharati Mukherjee, Whiteness, and South Asian American Writing" Textual Practice. 20(3), 529-547
• MAXEY, R., 2006. " Life in the Diaspora is Often Held in a Strange Suspension": First-Generation Self-Fashioning in Hanif Kureishi’s Narratives of Home and Return Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 41(3), 5-25
• MAXEY, R., 2006. "Interview: Meena Alexander" MELUS. 31(2), 21-39
• MAXEY, R., 2006. "An Interview With Meena Alexander" Kenyon Review. 28(1), 187-194
• MAXEY, R., 2006. 'The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri'. In: WERLOCK, ABBY H.P., ed., Facts on File Companion to the American Novel 2 (G-O). Facts on File. 947-948
• MAXEY, R., 2005. "The Messiness of Rebirth as an Immigrant": Bharati Mukherjee’s Changing Language of Migration South Asian Review. 26(2), 181-201
• MAXEY, R., 2005. "Children are given us to discourage our better instincts": The paradoxical treatment of children in Saki’s Short Fiction Journal of the Short Story in English. 45, 47-62
• MAXEY, R., 2005. "The East is Where Things Begin": Writing the Ancestral Homeland in Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston Orbis Litterarum. 60(1), 1-15