The spectrum of South Asian children’s fiction offers an intriguing diversity of content. In recent times, several emerging novelists associated with the genre have made telling contributions to its thematic advancement in relation to the social and cultural mores of the region. Much of contemporary South Asian children’s fiction revolves around socio-cultural and political heterogeneities, and the characters featured in children’s texts are often employed by their authors to reflect on the transformations that have taken place in Indian society. These recent changes in cultural values, the economy, communication technologies, and global connectivity, to name only a few, have led novelists to re-evaluate issues such as societal and individual identity crises, gender discrimination, and cultural hybridization. Rapid advancements in transport systems, coupled with the liberalization of economic frameworks, have ensured that the generic boundaries of South Asian children’s fiction are now depicted as less rigid and more protean. Mitali Perkins and Sowmya Rajendran, each of whom has begun to explore issues such as acculturation in diasporic communities, discrimination, and identity politics, against the backdrop of the dynamic socio-cultural fabric of South Asia, are two such emerging children’s novelists. While in the novel, You Bring the Distant Near (2017), Perkins deals with the problems of acculturation encountered by children, Rajendran focuses on the different issue of the exploitation of the female body in her dystopian novel, The Lesson (2015), which lays bare the insecurities of women living in such a society and has a close relevance to current issues affecting the lives of women in South Asian societies. Unlike other fiction in this genre, Rajendran’s narrative is meant to open the eyes of young female children, many of whom, upon reaching adulthood, must face the harsh and ineluctable reality of the marginalization and abuse of the female body in a patriarchal society. Taking recourse to relevant theoretical insights, this article seeks to examine and question the subjective interventions of both Perkins and Rajendran into understandings of diaspora and the female body, respectively.

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绘制当代南亚儿童小说的地图：米塔利·帕金斯（Mitali Perkins）的《你让遥远的地方》和索米亚·拉金德兰（Sowmya Rajendran）的《教训》中的争论

南亚儿童小说的种类繁多，内容引人入胜。近年来，与该类型相关的几位新兴小说家为与该地区的社会和文化风俗相关的主题发展做出了令人瞩目的贡献。当代南亚儿童的许多小说都围绕着社会文化和政治上的异质性而来，儿童文学作品中的人物经常被其作者用来反思印度社会发生的变化。这些最近在文化价值，经济，通信技术和全球连通性方面的变化（仅举几例）已导致小说家重新评估社会和个人身份危机，性别歧视和文化杂交等问题。运输系统的飞速发展，再加上经济框架的自由化，确保了南亚儿童小说的一般界限现在被描述为不那么僵化，而更像是纯种。在南亚活跃的社会文化结构背景下，米塔利·帕金斯（Mitali Perkins）和索维娅·拉金德兰（Sowmya Rajendran）都已开始探索流离失所者的文化适应，歧视和身份政治等问题，这两个都是新兴的儿童小说家。在小说《 You Bring the Distant Near（2017）》中，珀金斯（Perkins）处理儿童遇到的适应问题，而拉金德兰（Rajendran）在她的反乌托邦小说《教训（The Lesson）》（2015）中着重探讨了对女性身体的剥削问题。这暴露了生活在这样一个社会中的妇女的不安全感，并与影响南亚社会妇女生活的当前问题密切相关。与这种类型的其他小说不同，拉金德兰的叙述是要打开年幼女童的眼睛，其中许多人成年后必须面对父权制社会中女性被边缘化和虐待的残酷和不可避免的现实。借助相关的理论见解，本文力求研究和质疑珀金斯和拉金德兰的主观干预，分别对散居和女性身体的理解。在成年后，必须面对父权制社会中女性被边缘化和虐待的残酷和不可避免的现实。借助相关的理论见解，本文旨在研究和质疑珀金斯和拉金德兰的主观干预，分别对散居和女性身体的理解。在成年后，必须面对父权制社会中女性被边缘化和虐待的残酷和不可避免的现实。借助相关的理论见解，本文旨在研究和质疑珀金斯和拉金德兰的主观干预，分别对散居和女性身体的理解。