Aspiring to Home : South Asians in America

Resource Information

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Label

Aspiring to Home : South Asians in America

Title remainder

South Asians in America

Creator

• Mani, Bakirathi

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Immigrants in literature
• South Asian American arts
• American literature -- South Asian American authors | History and criticism
• South Asian Americans in literature
• South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity

Language

eng

Summary

What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999-2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

• 305.891/4073
• 305.891/4073

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult