| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 372 pages) |
| Series |
Asian American history and culture |
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Asian American history and culture.
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| Contents |
Observing ourselves among others : interview with Meena Alexander ; Pedagogical alternatives : issues in postcolonial studies : interview with Gauri Viswanathan ; Transnationality and multiculturalist ideology : interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva -- African Americans and the new immigrants / Amritjit Singh -- Life at the margins : in the thick of multiplicity / M.G. Vassanji -- Mullahs, sex, and bureaucrats : Pakistan's confrontations with the modern world / Sohail Inayatullah -- Coming to terms with the "postcolonial" / Deepika Bahri -- Explosion of difference : the margins of perception in Sammy and Rosie get laid / Ranita Chatterjee -- Emigrants twice displaced : race, color, and identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala / Binita Mehta -- From ritual drama to national prime time : Mahabharata, India's televisual obsession / Sanjoy Majumder -- Television, politics, and the epic heroine : case study, Sita / Mahasveta Barua -- Replacing the colonial gaze : gender as strategy in Salman Rushdie's fiction / Sukeshi Kamra -- Style is (not) the woman : Sara Suleri's Meatless days / Samir Dayal -- Redefining the postcolonial female self : women in Anita Desai's Clear light of day / Pushpa Naidu Parekh -- "Luminous Brahmin children must be saved" : imperialist ideologies, "postcolonial" histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The tiger's daughter / Indrani Mitra -- Troubled past : literature of severing and the viewer/viewed dialectic / Huma Ibrahim -- Jane Austen in Meerut, India / Amitava Kumar -- Border crossings : retrieval and erasure of the self as other / Shantanu DuttaAhmed -- I see the glass as half full / Uma Parameswaran |
| Summary |
This collection of interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture in the United States and Canada and attempts to explore the differences among the false homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
South Asian Americans.
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South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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South Asians -- Canada
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South Asians -- Canada -- Ethnic identity
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Oriental literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Decolonization in literature.
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Culture conflict in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Civilization.
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Colonial influence.
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Culture conflict in literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Oriental literature (English)
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South Asian Americans.
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South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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South Asians.
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South Asians -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnische Identität
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kultur
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Civilization -- 20th century
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South Asia -- Colonial influence
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| Subject |
Canada.
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South Asia.
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USA.
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Südasiaten.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bahri, Deepika, 1962- editor.
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Vasudeva, Mary, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
0585382484 |
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9780585382487 |
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9781439901083 |
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1439901082 |
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9781566394673 |
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1566394678 |
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