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

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) Series Asian America Asian America. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject 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. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. American literature -- South Asian American authors Immigrants in literature South Asian American arts South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity South Asian Americans in literature Einwanderung Motiv Ethnische Identität Literatur Bangladesch Indien Pakistan USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2011027977 ISBN 9780804780575 0804780579

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