Fashioning Diaspora : Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture /

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In her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shape South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s to the late-2000s. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reddy, Vanita, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Women, East Indian.
Transnationalism.
Fashion > Social aspects.
East Indian diaspora.
East Indian Americans > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Femininity > Social aspects.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Excepting beauty and negotiating nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
  • Prosthetic femininity, flexible citizenship, and feminist cosmopolitics in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Fashioning diasporic citizens in literary youth cultures of beauty and fashion
  • Oppositional economies of fashion in experimental feminist visual media
  • Histories of the cloth and sartorial sentiment in Shailja Patel's Migritude.

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