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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777991603321

Autore

Grewal Inderpal

Titolo

Transnational America [[electronic resource] ] : feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms / / Inderpal Grewal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-283-02408-X

9786613024084

0-8223-8654-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Next wave

Disciplina

305.48/891411073/09049

Soggetti

Transnationalism

Americanization

East Indians - United States

Group identity

National characteristics, American

Globalization - Social aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Nationalism and feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : neoliberal citizenship : the governmentality of rights and consumer culture -- Becoming American : the novel and the diaspora -- Traveling Barbie : Indian transnationalism and the global consumer -- Women's rights as human rights : the transnational production of global feminist subjects -- Gendering refugees : new transational/national subjects -- Transnational America : race and gender after 9/11.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India.