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Author:

Yasmin Hussain.

Title:

Writing diaspora : South Asian women, culture, and ethnicity / by Yasmin Hussain.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

148 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Identity and gender across generations of British South Asians -- Black British feminism and the birth of South Asian women's writing -- The new woman in South Asian and diasporic literature -- Bhaji on the beach and Bend it like Beckham : Gurinder Chadha and the 'desification' of British cinema -- Brick lane : gender and migration -- Childhood in Anita and me -- Conclusion.

Series:

Studies in migration

ISBN:

9780754641131 (alk. paper)
0754641139 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58788987

LCCN:

2005008912

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)