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UNINA9910781432003321 |
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Mani Bakirathi |
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Aspiring to Home : South Asians in America / / Bakirathi Mani |
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Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020] |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism |
South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity |
South Asian Americans in literature |
American literature - History and criticism - South Asian American authors |
South Asian Americans in literature - Ethnic identity |
Immigrants in literature |
South Asian Americans |
South Asian American arts |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Postcolonial Locations -- Two. So Far from Home -- Three. Beauty Queens -- Four. The Art of Multiculturalism -- Five. “Somewhere You’ve Never Been Before” -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians |
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from 1999–2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture. |
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