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Writing imagined diasporas : South Asian women reshaping North American identity / by Joel Kuortti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuortti, Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity in literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women in literature.
- American literature--South Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2007.
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Joel Kuortti's Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined dias...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41347-3
- 9786612413476
- 1-4438-1017-7
- OCLC:
- 830167621
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