Indian Accents
Subtitle: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780252037405
Subjects: Motion pictures; Television programs; English language, accents and accentuation; Gandhi, mahatma, 1869-1948
Description: "The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being praised as a model minority because they are highly educated, speak English, and can economically succeed in America. In American cinema and television, Shilpa Davé serves how contemporary images of South Asians build upon, modify, and at times diverge from previous stereotypes of Asian Americans as immigrants and model minorities"--