03799nam 22007095 450 991078143200332120230823004224.00-8047-8057-910.1515/9780804780575(CKB)2550000000070537(EBL)805146(OCoLC)767502461(SSID)ssj0000632216(PQKBManifestationID)12233592(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632216(PQKBWorkID)10609492(PQKB)11136202(DE-B1597)563832(DE-B1597)9780804780575(MiAaPQ)EBC805146(OCoLC)1178769507(EXLCZ)99255000000007053720200723h20202012 fg 0engur||#||||||||txtccrAspiring to Home South Asians in America /Bakirathi ManiStanford, CA :Stanford University Press,[2020]©20121 online resource (327 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7799-3 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 --IndexWhat 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 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.Asian AmericaAmerican literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticismSouth Asian Americans -- Ethnic identitySouth Asian Americans in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticismSouth Asian American authorsSouth Asian Americans in literatureEthnic identityImmigrants in literatureSouth Asian AmericansSouth Asian American artsAmerican literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism.South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.South Asian Americans in literature.American literatureHistory and criticismSouth Asian American authorsSouth Asian Americans in literatureEthnic identityImmigrants in literatureSouth Asian AmericansSouth Asian American arts305.891/4073Mani Bakirathiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1463111DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910781432003321Aspiring to Home3672325UNINA