How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging / Anupama Jain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jain, Anupama, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

South Asian Americans.

South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Americanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing a useful analysis of and framework for understanding immigration and assimilation narratives, Anupama Jain's How to Be South Asian in America considers the myth of the American Dream in fiction (Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music), film (American Desi, American Chai), and personal testimonies. By interrogating familiar American stories in the context of more supposedly exotic narratives, jain illuminates complexities of belonging that also reveal South Asians' anxieties about belonging, (trans)nationalism, and processes of cultural interpenetration.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613133823

9781283133821

1283133822

9781439903049

1439903042

OCLC:

722864755

Publisher Number:

heb40333 hdl