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Fashioning diaspora : beauty, femininity, and South Asian American culture / Vanita Reddy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reddy, Vanita, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- East Indian Americans.
- Women, East Indian.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Femininity--Social aspects.
- Femininity.
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Fashion.
- Transnationalism.
- East Indian diaspora.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine 34
- 2 Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship, and Feminist Cosmopolites in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri 64
- 3 Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Beauty and Fashion 101
- 4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Visual Media 139
- 5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shatlja Patel's Migritude 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439911549
- 1439911541
- 9781439911556
- 143991155X
- OCLC:
- 944303218
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