03434nam 2200661Ia 450 991082450740332120200520144314.00-8047-8057-910.1515/9780804780575(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)99255000000007053720110629d2012 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrAspiring to home South Asians in America /Bakirathi Mani1st ed.Stanford, California Stanford University Pressc20121 online resource (327 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7799-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 America.American literatureSouth Asian American authorsHistory and criticismSouth Asian Americans in literatureImmigrants in literatureSouth Asian AmericansEthnic identitySouth Asian American artsAmerican literatureSouth Asian American authorsHistory and criticism.South Asian Americans in literature.Immigrants in literature.South Asian AmericansEthnic identity.South Asian American arts.305.891/4073Mani Bakirathi1599301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824507403321Aspiring to Home3921911UNINA