How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging

How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging / Anupama Jain.

Providing a useful analysis of and framework for understanding immigration and assimilation narratives, anupama jain's How to Be South Asian in America considers the myth of the American Dream in fiction (Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music), film (American Desi, American Chai), and personal...

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Main Author: Jain, Anupama, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
South Asian Americans > Cultural assimilation.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Americanization.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
Americanization
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading assimilation and the American dream as transnational narratives
  • They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program
  • "Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization
  • "How to be Indian": independent films about second generation South Asian Americans
  • Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.

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