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Author:
Jain, Anupama, 1972-
Title:
How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging / Anupama Jain.
Publisher:
Temple University Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
x, 279 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
South Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.
South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Americanization.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1439903042 (e-Book)
9781439903049 (e-Book)
1439903034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439903032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439903026 (alk. paper)
9781439903025 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)664666256
LCCN:
2010039653
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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