How to be South Asian in America : [electronic resource] narratives of ambivalence and belonging / Anupama Jain.
2011
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Title
How to be South Asian in America : [electronic resource] narratives of ambivalence and belonging / Anupama Jain.
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (x, 279 pages)
Summary
Publisher description: Providing a useful analysis of and a diasporic framework for understanding immigration and assimilation narratives, anupama jain's How to Be South Asian in America considers the myth of the American Dream in fiction, including Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music, film, such as American Desi and American Chai, and personal testimonies. By interrogating familiar American stories in the context of postcolonial histories, jain illuminates cultural complexities that reveal specifically South Asian as well as more universal anxieties about belonging, transnationalism, and processes of cultural interpenetration.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Reading assimilation and the American dream as transnational narratives
They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program
"Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization
"How to be Indian": independent films about second-generation South Asian Americans
Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.
They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program
"Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization
"How to be Indian": independent films about second-generation South Asian Americans
Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2025. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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