Aspiring to home : South Asians in America / Bakirathi Mani.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian America.
Main Author: Mani, Bakirathi (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Series:Asian America.
Subjects:
American literature > South Asian American authors > History and criticism.
South Asian Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
South Asian American arts.
Physical Description:pages cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : becoming South Asian
  • Postcolonial locations : Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies and The namesake
  • So far from home : documenting immigrant lives in Knowing her place, Calcutta calling, and Bangla east side
  • Beauty queens : gender, ethnicity, and transnational modernities at Miss India U.S.A.
  • The art of multiculturalism : diasporadics, desh pardesh, and Artwallah
  • Somewhere you've never been before? : the American romance of Bombay dreams.