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UNINA9910827276503321 |
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Autore |
Kuortti Joel |
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Titolo |
Writing imagined diasporas : South Asian women reshaping North American identity / / by Joel Kuortti |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-41347-3 |
9786612413476 |
1-4438-1017-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnicity in literature |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
American literature - South Asian American authors - History and criticism |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-190) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Joel Kuortti's Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined dias... |
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