Writing diaspora
Subtitle: South Asian women, culture, and ethnicity
By: by Yasmin Hussain.
Series: Studies in migration and diaspora
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; South Asians -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History.; Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Women and literature -- Great Britain.; South Asians in literature.; South Asians in mass media.; Immigrants in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Southeast Asia -- In literature.
Description: "Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered at a purely theoretical level."

"In this book Yasmin Hussain uses these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. Hussain provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of the British South Asian community, discussing key concerns that emerge within the work of this new generation of women writers and which express more widespread debates within the community. In particular these authors address issues of individual and group identity and the ways in which these are inflected by ethnicity and gender."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Identity and gender across generations of British South Asians; title: Black British feminism and the birth of South Asian women's writing; title: The new woman in South Asian and diasporic literature; title: Bhaji on the beach and Bend it like Beckham : Gurinder Chadha and the 'desification' of British cinema; title: Brick lane : gender and migration; title: Childhood in Anita and me; title: Conclusion.