Aspiring to home : South Asians in America /
What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means t...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2012
Stanford, California : ©2012 Stanford, CA : [2020] |
| Series: | Asian America
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| Summary: | What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999-2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages ): illustrations ; 24 cm 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) 1 online resource |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0804780579 (electronic bk.) 0804780579 9780804780575 (electronic bk.) 9780804780575 |
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