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Reading Together, Reading Apart : Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community /

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South Asia...

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Autor principal: Bhalla, Tamara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, Chicago, Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Mad for Difference: Authenticity, Ambivalence, and the Cosmopolitan South Asian American Reader; 1 The Glue That Keeps Us Together: Constructing Ethnic Community in the NetSAP Book Club; 2 There's a Whole Other Class: Model Minorities, Privileged Subjects, and the Question of Caste; 3 A Narrow View of the World: Gendered Literary Culture and South Asian American Belonging; 4 Thinking and Feeling with Her: Representation and Affect in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake; Afterword. Beyond Ambivalence?; Appendix 1. List of Interviewees.
  • Appendix 2. Book Club Meetings Attended (2006-2007, 2009-2010)Appendix 3. Complete List of Books Read by the NetSAP DC Book Club, 1998-2014; Appendix 4. Interview Questions for NetSAP Book Club Interviewees; Notes; References; Index.