Aspiring to Home : South Asians in America.

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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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mani, Bakirathi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Asian America.
Temas:
American literature > South Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Immigrants in literature.
South Asian American arts.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
South Asian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine sud-asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine sud-asiatique > Identité ethnique.
American literature > South Asian American authors
Immigrants in literature
South Asian American arts
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
South Asian Americans in literature
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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