Aspiring to home
Subtitle: South Asians in America
By: Bakirathi Mani
Series: Asian America; Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780804777995; 9780804778008
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Immigrants in literature; South Asian American authors; South Asian Americans; American literature; History and criticism; South Asian American arts; South Asian Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : becoming South Asian; title: Postcolonial locations : Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies and The namesake; title: So far from home : documenting immigrant lives in Knowing her place, Calcutta calling, and Bangla east side; title: Beauty queens : gender, ethnicity, and transnational modernities at Miss India U.S.A.; title: The art of multiculturalism : diasporadics, desh pardesh, and Artwallah; title: Somewhere you've never been before? : the American romance of Bombay dreams.