LEADER 03434nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910824507403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8057-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780575 035 $a(CKB)2550000000070537 035 $a(EBL)805146 035 $a(OCoLC)767502461 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632216 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12233592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632216 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10609492 035 $a(PQKB)11136202 035 $a(DE-B1597)563832 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC805146 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769507 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000070537 100 $a20110629d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAspiring to home $eSouth Asians in America /$fBakirathi Mani 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 1 $aAsian America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-7799-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. Postcolonial Locations --$tTwo. So Far from Home --$tThree. Beauty Queens --$tFour. The Art of Multiculturalism --$tFive. ?Somewhere You?ve Never Been Before? --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999?2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture. 410 0$aAsian America. 606 $aAmerican literature$xSouth Asian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth Asian Americans in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aSouth Asian Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aSouth Asian American arts 615 0$aAmerican literature$xSouth Asian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth Asian Americans in literature. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aSouth Asian Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aSouth Asian American arts. 676 $a305.891/4073 700 $aMani$b Bakirathi$01599301 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824507403321 996 $aAspiring to Home$93921911 997 $aUNINA