How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging /

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Providing a useful analysis of and framework for understanding immigration and assimilation narratives, anupama jain's How to Be South Asian in America considers the myth of the American Dream in fiction (Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music), film (American Desi, American Chai), and personal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jain, Anupama, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Temas:
South Asian Americans > Cultural assimilation.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Americanization.
Américains d'origine sud-asiatique > Acculturation.
Américains d'origine sud-asiatique > Identité ethnique.
Américanisation.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
Americanization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Providing a useful analysis of and framework for understanding immigration and assimilation narratives, anupama jain's How to Be South Asian in America considers the myth of the American Dream in fiction (Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music), film (American Desi, American Chai), and personal testimonies. By interrogating familiar American stories in the context of more supposedly exotic narratives, jain illuminates complexities of belonging that also reveal South Asians' anxieties about belonging, (trans)nationalism, and processes of cultural interpenetration.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 279 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
ISBN:9781439903049
1439903042

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