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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Asian America |
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Asian America.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Becoming South Asian; 1. Postcolonial Locations: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake; 2. So Far from Home: Documenting Immigrant Lives in Knowing Her Place, Calcutta Calling, and Bangla East Side; 3. Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at Miss India USA; 4. The Art of Multiculturalism: Diasporadics, Desh Pardesh, and Artwallah; 5. "Somewhere You've Never Been Before":The American Romance of Bombay Dreams; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on po |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism
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Immigrants in literature.
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South Asian American arts.
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South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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South Asian Americans in literature.
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American literature -- South Asian American authors
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Immigrants in literature
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South Asian American arts
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South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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South Asian Americans in literature
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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American Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804780575 |
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0804780579 |
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