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1 online resource |
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Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; In Place of a Preface: Cautions, Considerations; 1. Departures and Returns: Literacy Practices across Borders; 2. En Route: Reconsidering Sites and Subjects or Research in Motion; 3. Genes and Jeans: Sanskrit South Asia in the US Mid-South, and Back Again; 4. Detours and Diversions: (Re)Writing Gender Roles; 5. Arrivals, Interrogations, Responses: "Islamic Ways of Life" or the Literacy Practices of an "Other" Nation; 6. Between Departures and Returns: Literacies of Migrations, Migrations of Literacies; Appendix: Initial Interview Script; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
"In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding at sites as varied as a Hindu school, a Hindu women's reading group, Muslim men's and women's discussion groups formed soon after 9/11, and cross-cultural presentations by these immigrants to the host communities and law enforcement agencies. Through more than seventy interviews, he reveals the migratory nature of literacies and the community work required to make these practices meaningful. Pandey addresses critical questions about language and cultural identity at a time of profound change. He examines how symbolic resources are invented and reinvented and circulated and recirculated within and across communities; the impact of English and new technologies on teaching, learning, and practicing ancestral languages; and how gender and religious identifications shape these practices. Overall, the book offers a thorough examination of the ways individuals use interpretive powers for agency within their own communities and for cross-cultural understanding in a globalizing world and what these practices mean for our understanding of that world"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into the South Asian community in Mid-South America to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Linguistic minorities -- South America
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South Asians -- Migrations.
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South Asians -- South America -- Social life and customs
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Literacy -- South America
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Language and culture -- South America
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Sociolinguistics -- South America
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Language and culture
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Linguistic minorities
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Literacy
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Sociolinguistics
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South Asians -- Migrations
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South Asians -- Social life and customs
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South America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822981022 |
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0822981025 |
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