How to be South Asian in America
Subtitle: narratives of ambivalence and belonging
By: Anupama Jain
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781439903025; 9781439903032; 9781439903049
Subjects: Cultural assimilation; South Asian Americans; Ethnic identity; Americanization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading assimilation and the American dream as transnational narratives; title: They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program; title: "Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization; title: "How to be Indian": independent films about second-generation South Asian Americans; title: Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.